Description

Dated 1790. Symmetrical, 3-storey 7-bay tenement. Cream droved sandstone ashlar with some polished dressings; rubble to gables and rear. Regular fenestration.

N (FERRY ROAD) ELEVATION: base course; band course above ground floor; cill course to 1st floor; dentilled cornice and blocking course. Long and short ashlar quoins. Centre bay slightly recessed; asymmetrical 2-leaf flush-panelled doors with blind fanlight, moulded architrave and consoled cornice. Gable end elevations with windows at centre.

6-bay rear elevation.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; rendered stacks; ashlar coped skews.

INTERIOR: common stair with plain cast-iron handrail; 2 flats to each floor with flush-panelled doors and 3-pane fanlights.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: low coped rubble wall to front with ashlar base for railings running to front door and enclosing front gardens; no railings remain. Range of 8 lean-to outbuildings against W wall (1 without roof) with stone doorway to street and door in screen wall to garden.

Statement of Interest

The building was originally owned, and presumably built, by a Dutch shipmaster called Thomas Taap.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807371

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  For the Record