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Latitude: 55.8283 / 55°49'41"N
Longitude: -3.2223 / 3°13'20"W
OS Eastings: 323526
OS Northings: 660122
OS Grid: NT235601
Mapcode National: GBR 51Y1.5K
Mapcode Global: WH6T5.GRSV
Plus Code: 9C7RRQHH+83
Entry Name: 47-49 John Street, Penicuik
Listing Name: 39-49 (Odd Nos) John Street, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 1 May 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389711
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43275
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389711
Location: Penicuik
County: Midlothian
Town: Penicuik
Electoral Ward: Penicuik
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1845. 2-storey, 11-bay symmetrical terrace in style of Jacobethan alms houses, mirrored about centre. Stugged, squared and snecked cream sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Raised margins; chamfered arrises. Long and short quoins.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to doorways in bays flanking centre and in outer bays, comprising 4-panel timber doors, 6-panel in bay to left of centre, with plate glass rectangular fanlight, diamond-pattern rectangular fanlight in bay to outer right, windows above at 1st floor; regular fenestration to remaining bays at ground and 1st floor, with bipartite windows in bays at ground and 1st floor at centre, and in alternating bays.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: single windows to ground and 1st floors to E and W respectively.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1999. Boarded doors to lean-to extension to S; glass-panelled door and windows to lean-to to N; single windows to 1st floor above.
Predominantly timber lozenge-pattern glazing, some replacement small-paned timber sash and case windows to rear. Grey slate roof; slate-hung rectangular dormers to rear. Ashlar gablehead and ashlar and rendered paired ridge stacks; coped, with circular and octagonal cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1999.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low, coursed and coped boundary wall to street.
No 39-41 is now used as veterinary surgery. The unusual windows appear to be unique to the area and, according to local sources, were made by a French prisoner of war. The houses were originally known as John Terrace and owned by A Cowan and Sons Papermills of Valleyfield Penicuik.
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