Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay tenement on terraced site.

Cement-rendered and lined elevation, roughcast rear elevation with ashlar cills. Eaves cornice, projecting cills at windows.

W (UNION STREET) ELEVATION: shopfront at ground floor framed by pink granite pilasters with capitals and grey granite bases. Entrance door, with 3-pane fanlight above, to common stair at outer left. Panelled entrance door to shop at right, mostly glazed with plate glass fanlight above. Flanking windows over grey granite stall risers, curved at ends with applied brass lettering. Timber fascia with carved lettering and numbers, cornice above terminated at ends with panelled brackets surmounted by semicircular open pediments above.

REAR ELEVATION: roughcast, with apsidal stair tower.

Modern glazing at upper floors to front and rear, grey slate roof, piend-roofed slate-hung canted timber dormers. Panelled shop door with glazed upper and diagonal brass handle. Cast-iron profiled gutter with decorative hopper at downpipe to left, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Roughcast, coped multi-flue stack at N gable with circular cans.

INTERIOR: panelled shop counter.

Statement of Interest

This building is listed primarily for its high quality shopfront. Although downgrading of the original sash and case windows mars the traditional character of the upper floors, the tenement as a whole continues to make a valuable contribution to the townscape.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17774378

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)