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Latitude: 55.6518 / 55°39'6"N
Longitude: -3.1907 / 3°11'26"W
OS Eastings: 325167
OS Northings: 640446
OS Grid: NT251404
Mapcode National: GBR 6352.0T
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y6RM
Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+PP
Entry Name: 50 High Street, Peebles
Listing Name: 50 and 52 High Street
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384801
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39203
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384801
1877. 3-storey 4-bay Free Baronial house with shops at ground floor and pend opening. Cream sandstone ashlar to front, harl and whinstone rubble to rear. Stop-roll-moulded reveals; bracketted cills at 1st floor; 2nd floor jettied on moulded and crenellated course with mock canon spouts; 2nd floor windows breaking eaves in finialled and scrolled 17th century style pediments; eaves cornice.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: pend opening to outer right with wrought-iron fitting of hanging sign above; shopfronts to outer left and centre (altered) framed by scrolled brackets surmounted by shell motif. Shop to left panelled door and slender column with foliate capital. Regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floor. At 2nd floor to outer right wallmounted sundial inscribed 'Greenwich Solar Time' and dated 1877.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: harled gabled extension.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Green slate roof with metal flashings. Corniced apex stacks; ashlar skews with corbelled skewputts.
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
A unique, imaginative design.
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