Description

Circa 1820 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical classical house of painted, droved ashlar, polished ashlar dressings, rubble side and rear elevations. Base course, cill course to 1st floor, cornice.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: segmental-arched door with panelled ashlar flanks, at centre, panelled door, semicircular radial fanlight. Quasi-Venetian windows flanking at ground with blind sidelights.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: harled single storey extension spanning bays and projecting at bay to left.

Plate glass round-arched timber sash and case windows; modern plate glass swing casement windows to 1st floor. Grey graded slate roof, slate roofed extensions to rear. Rendered stacks to gable ends.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared rendering with coping to front.

Statement of Interest

The building dates from before 1824, and according to W Baird, the street was first feued for building purposes in 1802, but was not developed until the 1820s. To the rear of No 40 is a harled L-plan building which dates, (according to surviving documents in the Dean of Guild archives), from 1913.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631061

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)