Description

Mid 19th century. Symmetrical pair of semi-detached 2-storey 2-bay pattern book Tudor houses, set back from road on rising ground. Stugged coursed ashlar with polished dressings to front; harled to sides with long and short ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered arrises.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: inner bays with deep set doors with Gothic panels and rectangular fanlights with Gothic glazing; stop-roll-moulded architraves; bracketed balconettes with pierced balustrading and moulded coping above; pair of narrow hoodmoulded closet windows between doors at ground; windows above doors at 1st floor. Single corbelled stack at centre, breaking eaves, with pair of coped ashlar diamond flues and octagonal cans. Advanced gabled outer bays with piend-

roofed canted window at ground (that to No18 cement-rendered); single hoodmoulded window at 1st floor with blank shield in gablehead; apex finial.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: gabled with window to each floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bays at centre. Unseen 1993.

Timber sash and case 12-lying-pane windows (uPVC replacements to No18). Grey slates; brick apex stacks to E and W; sawtooth ashlar coped skews; corbelled gablet skewputts.

INTERIOR: unseen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low rubble front wall with saddleback ashlar coping; each house with pair of capped octagonal pedestrian gatepiers. Cast-iron spearhead railings and gates. Further pier abutts 14 Langtongate to E. Tall coped rubble boundary wall to W.

Statement of Interest

The ashlar of both houses has been patched to a greater or lesser degree.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17850399

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record