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16 Steel Street, Gourock

A Category C Listed Building in Gourock, Inverclyde

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9565 / 55°57'23"N

Longitude: -4.8056 / 4°48'20"W

OS Eastings: 224945

OS Northings: 677276

OS Grid: NS249772

Mapcode National: GBR 0B.XLDY

Mapcode Global: WH2M9.4KW0

Plus Code: 9C7QX54V+JQ

Entry Name: 16 Steel Street, Gourock

Listing Name: 10-16 (Even Nos) Steel Street

Listing Date: 29 March 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 378232

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34027

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200378232

Location: Gourock

County: Inverclyde

Town: Gourock

Electoral Ward: Inverclyde West

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

Circa 1900. 2-storey, 6-bay flatted block. Red sandstone, squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings to front, render to rear and sides. String course above ground floor, arched with bold keystones over outer bays and open pedimented over centre; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; ashlar mullions.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: paired doorways to right of centre with chip-carving detail to lintel, window above. 2nd, 3rd and 5th bay from left with 2-storey canted windows over battered bases and shallow finialled roofs; tall wallhead stacks to corners.

S ELEVATION: doorway to centre with small slated canopy over timber brackets rising from stone corbels, window flanking and above.

N ELEVATION: as above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 small rectangular outshoots. Some timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, mostly replacement windows. Piended slate roof with crested red ridge tiles; 2 central stacks, 2 wallhead stack (see above).

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

Low stepped rubble wall with saddleback coping.

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