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43 High Street, Peebles

A Category C Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6513 / 55°39'4"N

Longitude: -3.191 / 3°11'27"W

OS Eastings: 325151

OS Northings: 640399

OS Grid: NT251403

Mapcode National: GBR 6342.YZ

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y6NY

Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+GJ

Entry Name: 43 High Street, Peebles

Listing Name: 41 and 43 High Street

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384786

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39193

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384786

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Date 1897. 3-storey 4-bay tenement on corner site with 2 shops at ground, corner turret and Scottish 17th century detailing.

N ELEVATION: squared snecked and stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Moulded architraves; cill course at 2nd floor; swept corners; turret to E corbelled out at 1st floor and again at 2nd, with 3 windows to each floor, cornice and conical roof with wrought-iron weathervane finial; W corner corbelled to square at 2nd floor. Original 3-bay (and glazed corner) delicate timber shopfronts

with set-back central glazed doors; plate glass windows, panelled aprons; pilaster divides shops; plain fascia and cornice.

1st floor windows corniced, that at centre pedimented. 2nd floor

windows breaking eaves with gabled dormerheads; that at centre

pedimented with final; flanking gableheads with dated and

monogrammed MB shields.

E ELEVATION: white painted render with black painted ashlar margins (as adjoining Tontine Hotel). Gable to right with apex stack; 2 irregular bays to left; bipartite window at ground, single windows above. Balustraded parapet with ball finials.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey-green slates; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar dressed stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

Upper floors may be linked to the Tontine Hotel. Pend in No 44 gives access to the rear.

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