Description

1881. 3-storey, asymmetrical Scottish Baronial tenement, crowstepped gable corbelled square turret with dovecot to right. Shop at ground, carriage pend. Snecked sandstone bull-faced rubble with ahslar dressings to S elevation. String course over ground floor, continuous cill course at 1st and 2nd floor, stops of both courses oeverlap downpipe.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance flanked by carriage pend to left and large display window. Window to left bipartite window to right at 1st floor, segmental-headed with hollow chamfered surround, fluted mullion to bipartite. 2 windows with moulded archtiravesto 2nd floor. Ball finial to gable apex. Date stone '1881'. Corner tower with arrow-loop, piended slate roof divided by flight holes, and surmounted by weathervane. Tall stack at wallhead to left.

Plate glass lower, 2-pane upper, sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Flanked by lower buildings, side walls built up to coped parapet. Original square rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Abbey National savings bank occupies the ground floor.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56643648

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)