Description

Circa 1817. 2-storey and basement, 4 bay pair of symmetrical classical houses with single storey wing (1A) adjoining to E. Cream sandstone polished ashlar, rusticated at ground; rubble to E and rear. Base course; string course to ground floor; dividing band course; cill course, corniced architraves and cast iron palmette and anthemion pattern window guards to 1st floor windows; cornice; blocking course.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to round arched doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; umbrella fanlights; engaged Tuscan columns to doorpieces; single windows to 1st floor above; single windows set in round arched panels to ground floor to outer left and right; single windows to 1st floor above. Single storey wing to E; 2 bay; modern door to outer right; single window to left.

E (DALKEITH ROAD) ELEVATION: 3 bay; single storey wing at ground; regular fenestration to 1st floor above.

Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; corniced and coped wallhead stacks; octagonal moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low droved and coped boundary wall to street; pedestrian gate adjoining house to W.

Statement of Interest

Middleby Street is part of the Blacket development feued by Benjamin and George Bell: it takes its name from their Dumfriesshire estate of Blacket which was in the parish of Middlebie. No 3 has been subdivided into flats.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795400

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)