Description

James Thomson (Baird and Thomson), 1859-60. Upper 2 floors
and columns at doors later. 4 storeys half-sunk basement and
attic. 7 bays. Classical commercial building. Polished
ashlar, rusticated at ground floor with vermiculated quoins
and voussoirs, channelled at basement. Paired entries at head
of stone steps oversailing basement, portico with composite
columns and circular pierced parapet. All windows sash and
case in architraves, plate-glass. Ground floor console
keyblocked arched windows on basement bandcourse with aprons
and moulded cills; ground floor cornice. 1st floor windows
with slim outer pilasters, consoled. Corniced 2nd floor
moulded cill band between projecting cills; segmentally
pedimented windows. 3rd floor moulded cill band. Eaves rich
floral frieze, dentil band, modillion cornice. Attic storey
with recessed windows, tripartite in outer bays; lugged
architraves; central bays separated by panelled Doric
pilasters; parapet with panelled piers. Cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

The masonry is modelled on Wilson's at Faculty of

Procurators.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810562

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)