Description

Pair near contemporary tenement blocks, dating to late 1870's linked by cast-iron columned shopfronts at full width of both buildings; stugged, squared, and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings; distinctive cast-iron free-standing mullions, with glazing threaded behind, reminiscent of the work of Alexander Thomson (see note).

No 8 (right): 3-storey and attic; 4-bay. Original shopfront survives at ground, obscured at right by modern sign, with cast-iron corinthianesque columns raised on high narrow circular plinths; bracketed corniced entablature above (presumably also beneath modern shop sign), with cusped detailing between brackets. Shallow segmental-headed windows at 1st and 2nd floors, single lights paired at centre with flanking tripartites at outer bays, all with Thomsonesque slender free-standing cast-iron mullions (decorative), standing in front of stone mullions behind. Windows have stop-chamfered margins, round-moulded with pellet detail at lintel. 1st floor enhanced by continous stepped hood-moulds. Cill-course at 2nd floor; dentilled and bracketed eaves course. Elaborate centre wallhead stack, polygonal at centre, with pair flanking gabletted dies; datestone roundel in centre polygonal panel; quatrefoil roundels at dies, each with cast-iron finials. Thomsonesque chimney cans. Pair original canted dormer windows at outer bays; end stack to right.

No 10:original casat-iron columned shopfront at ground survives intact (detailing as No 8); openings at 1st and 2nd floors arranged as No 8, with identical low segmental-headed windows and slender free-standing cast-iron mullions; at 1st floor decorative consoles support corniced brackets to each bay instead of hood-mould at No 8. Cill-course at 2nd floor. Plain tall narrow centre wallhead stack with plainer polygonal chimney cans; pair flanking dormers.

Statement of Interest

Nos 8 and 10 were formerly Nos 78 and 79 prior to 1927 renumbering of Broomlands Street. Tenement style probably influenced by Alexander Thomson's Buck's Head Building, 63 Argyle Street, Glasgow (1863).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17841242

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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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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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)