Description

James Pearson Alison, 1897, incorporating earlier fabric. 3-storey with attic 3-bay shop with flat above. Coursed cream stugged ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Ground floor framed by channelled pilasters supporting cornice and central pediment; base course. To outer left, panelled door to flat (Jedvale) with rectangular fanlight and moulded timber architrave; flanking to right, 3-bay shop with panelled door and fanlight at centre (as above), deep-set in doorcase with moulded ashlar architrave applied to channelled pilasters; flanking plate glass windows under moulded lintel; awning box below cornice. Architraved windows with cills to each bay of upper floors; with cornices to 1st floor. Eaves cornice. Pair of flat-roofed canted timber slate-hung dormers.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Broad rendered stack; grey slates. Cast-iron downpipe.

Statement of Interest

Rebuilt for Dr Blair at a cost of $720. Part of a continuous group with 2 to 16 Canongate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635773

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Recommended Books

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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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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)