Description

Possibly J Sim, circa 1890. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, classical tenement. Ashlar to front, squared, snecked and stugged sandstone to rear, 1st floor cill band course and cornice, cornice above 1st floor window heads, projecting eaves cornice, parapet, pilaster ends, architraved margins.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: inter-war shopfront at ground; double doors and flanking windows set back, flanking advanced bays, plate glass, cast metal frame, frosted and stained glass with leaded lights above plate glass and in ceiling pond to centre, black polished granite stall riser, wall ends and deep fascia above, flush fitting canopy, doorway to right with rectangular fanlight matching Moderne scheme. 1st floor; central pilastered window, panelled head with palmette, consoled cornice above, flanking stone-mullioned bipartites with consoled cornices, elaborate scroll consoles with triglyph and miniature decorated pediment at conjunction of 1st floor cill cornice and pilaster ends, polished granite facing of shopfront abutting, 2nd floor; central pilastered round-arched window, consoled cill, keystone, consoled pediment above head into parapet, flanking stone- mullioned bipartites, margins rounded at heads, attic storey; prominent central nepus gable, pilastered window to centre with segmental pediment above, decorated tympanum, twin stacks above, square and panelled, deep corniced entablature forming link, curvilinear feet to gable, flanking canted piended dormers.

N ELEVATION: adjoining 1-5 High Street.

S ELEVATION: adjoining 13 High Street.

E ELEVATION: irregular fenestration, plain margins, single storey building abutting at ground, 4 bays at 2nd floor, canted piended dormers to left and right.

Timber sash and case windows above ground floor, plate glass. Grey slate; broad corniced gablehead stacks to N and S.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

Similar to 17-21 High Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17780306

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