Description

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay symmetrical tenement in terraced site. Broached sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; rock-faced rustication at basement. Cill course to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; band course to principal and 1st floors; cornice and blocking course to 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flush-panelled common stair door centred at principal floor, with rectangular fanlight, flanked by flush-panelled doors in recessed round-arched doorways, with umbrella semicircular fanlights. Windows in bays to outer left and right; regular fenestration to floors above, with blind window centred at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area with coped rubble retaining walls. Vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks, pair of rubble gablehead stacks with broached ashlar dressings; coped with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes, surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials. Cast-iron railing mounted lamps with glass globes.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17575092

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)