Description

George Wilson, 1886. 4-storey, 5-bay tenement with Jacobean details, forming part of terrace. Squared and snecked orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; string course above ground floor; cill courses at 1st and 3rd floor; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals; panelled doors; border-glazed fanlights.

S ENTRANCE elevation: doorway with Gibbsian surround and semi-circular pediment 1st and 2nd bays. Similar doorway offset to right in 4th bay; single windows above; broken pediment to 1st floor window; semi-circular dormerhead breaking eaves at 3rd floor. Doorway flanking to left of corbel to advanced bipartite windows in central (3rd) bay; single window flanking to right of corbel at ground; pedimented slit window set in curvilinear gablehead. Full-height canted windows to outer left and right; ogee roofs with iron weathervane finials. Single windows in 2nd bay; pediment to 1st floor window; semi-circular dormerhead breaking eaves at 3rd floor. Single window at ground between 3rd and 4th bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead and mutual stacks. INTERIORS: not seen 1991.

Low boundary coping to street.

Statement of Interest

Designed for Andrew Tweedie, builder. Detailed as Nos 85-89 Warrender Park Road.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806029

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)