Description

Circa 1815. Three 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled houses forming terrace. Mostly coursed whinstone rubble with tabbed, droved ashlar margins; some squared sandstone to rear. Eaves course.

NO 3: Central doorway; 2 symmetrically positioned piended dormers at attic. Raised margins. Irregular openings to rear. Raised margins.

NO 4: Central segmental-arched pend with keystone; moulded architrave to left ground-floor window; bipartite stone-mullioned central window at 1st floor; blocked, flat-headed dormer to left at attic. Full-height gabled wing to rear with irregular fenestration.

NO 5: 3 stone steps to central recessed 4-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight; rectangular flanking windows; wide pend to outer right; regular fenestration at 1st floor. Painted margins. Single-storey wing to rear. INTERIOR: decorative cast-iron balustrade at 1st-floor landing

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to principal elevation of No 5; front openings at Nos 3 and 4 now blocked; predominantly non-traditional windows to rear. Ashlar-coped skews. Later ashlar-coped brick ridge stacks with some circular buff clay cans. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: Head-height, ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls extending forward from left of pend entrance at No 4 and between forecourts of Nos 4 and 5.

Statement of Interest

A good, traditional, early-19th-century range of houses which makes a strong contribution to the streetscape of Slitrig Crescent.

The ribbon development of private and industrial buildings along the south side of Slitrig Crescent was one of the town's first expansions beyond its medieval boundaries. The road was laid out circa 1800, and the various houses and mills were constructed from 1815.

These houses formed part of a continuous terrace which ran the entire length of Slitrig Crescent. The block at No 6 has been removed, and the gable end of No 5 finished in red brick. Nos 3 and 4 were derelict at the time of resurvey (2007), but retain their original window, door and pend margins and as such are important to an understanding of how the whole Crescent would originally have looked.

A tannery and dyeworks were originally located to the rear of these houses. By the time of the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1897), extensive industrial buildings had been constructed to house them. These have since been removed. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635163

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version