Description

J Bryan Nisbet, 1896. 3 pairs of single storey cottages with attics and basements on falling ground to rear, forming part of terrace. Cream (Nos 6-7), lemon (No 8), white (No 9) and dark blue (Nos 10-11) harling with grey sandstone dressings. Base course; cill band course; eaves cornice; advanced entrance blocks with lintel band courses, roll-moulded doorways and surrounds to single windows, aproned cornices to doorways, cornices and blocking courses; panelled doors; flat-roofed and piend-roofed bipartite box dormers.

W ENTRANCE elevation: each pair comprising 4 bays mirrored about centre; advanced entrances in 2nd and 3rd bays; doorways flanked by single windows to right and left respectively; bipartite windows in bays to outer left and right, flanked to centre by single lights; box dormers above each bay (piend-roofed in outer bays); replacement tripartite dormer at No 7. Sash and case windows with 2-pane lower sashes and 6-pane upper sashes; small panes to box dormers in 2 central bays of each pair. Grey-green slate roof; coped red brick stacks; terracotta ridge tiles and finials to piend-roofed dormers; coped gables; moulded eaves guttering; scroll skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Designed for William Watson, builder, and Peter MacKenzie, solicitor. Nisbet later completed 12-15 Glenisla gardens on the same design and G Lennox Beattie copied the form for Nos 1-5 (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803971

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)