Description

Early 20th century. 3-storey 3-bay Free Renaissance commercial building. Red sandstone ashlar front, red brick to rear and side with some sandstone dressings. Bracketted band cill courses at 1st and 2nd floor; eaves cornice with tall ashlar parapet and ornamental carved end dies; angle pilasters channelled at ground floor with decorative carving to capitals; mullioned and transomed windows with boldly rounded arrises.

E ELEVATION: modern restaurant front at ground floor. Centre bay above slightly advanced with shallow angle pilasters and bipartite windows, dormerhead breaking parapet with squat bipartite, semicircular corniced and lugged pediment with monogrammed and carved cartouche. Quadripartite windows to outer bays.

N ELEVATION: windows to right, parapet terminated by ashlar wallhead stack.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: quadripartite stair window to centre; bipartite windows to outer bays. Modern replacement windows throughout. Piended roof with interlocking concrete tiles, iron finials to front; wallhead stack to W (see above).

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634683

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2