Description

Alexander Cullen, 1898. 3-storey and attic office building with modern shopfronts to ground floor. Tooled red ashlar, partly painted, slate roof. String course at 1st floor level; moulded wallhead cornice with decorated corbels; corniced stacks. Out-of-character modern window frames. FRONT ELEVATION: keystoned and moulded round-headed doorcase to centre, cornice with sculpted bird motifs, pilastered to outer angles with sculpted lizard and squirrel motifs; tripartite oriel window to 1st and 2nd floor centre with scultped grape and vine corbel panel beneath and raised lettering 'Brandon Chambers' in panel between first and second, below egg-and-dart moulded cill course; tripartite windows to 1st and 2nd floors at left and right, set in full-height panels with nook and mullion shafts, triparttie round-headed arches to top with sculpted grape and vine decoration above; 3 pedimented dormers.

Statement of Interest

Cullen's practice address is given as Brandon Chambers on the drawings for this office.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17851199

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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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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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)