Description

Alexander Cullen, 1904. 2-storey, pedimented shop and commercial building with lower, 2-storey, flat-roofed bays. Red sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Corniced ground floor and wallhead, pilastered angles; margined windows with plate glass sash and case glazing; ashlar-coped skews. FRONT ELEVATION: pedimented bay to right. Modern shopfront to ground floor, 3 windows to 1st, astragalled oculus to pediment; splayed angle to right with hoodmoulded clock and parapet to 1st floor; narrow pedimented bay to right return with window to 1st floor. Flat-roofed bays to left; corniced doorway and 2 ball-finials to porch at centre re-entrant; blocked shopfront to right, 2 window to 1st floor; window recessed to left with consoled segmental pediment, balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

These buildings are linked to 8 Keith Street/1 Bourne Street and with it comprises the block formed at the north west end of Bourne and Townend Streets, part of the Bottom Cross. Keith Street was constructed in about 1894.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634922

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)