Description

1866. Substantial 2-storey over raised basement, wide
3-bay house. Tooled ashlar, polished ashlar dressings,
rubble flanks. Centre door with pilastered and corniced
doorpiece, approached by short flight of steps with
original cast-iron hand rail. Panelled door with plain
fanlight. Outer advanced bays rising to 1st floor with
tripartites, angle strips and bracketted cornice between
floors to both. 2-and 4-pane glazing to front, some
12-pane glazing survives at rear.
Symmetrically placed pair of ridge chimney batteries, 6
square stacks linked by cornice to each; wide ashlar
eaves; shallow piended slate roof. Low 2-storey wing to
rear with modern glazing to 1st floor.
High coped rubble garden walls. Square stone gatepiers
with modern cement render and moulded pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Built by William Murdoch, Solicitor. Formerly Royal Terrace.

Former Item 145 (1981 Revised List).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17825259

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6