Description

Dated 1877 with later additions and alterations. 3-storey, 2-bay terraced tenement, commercial at ground. Bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; whinstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings to rear. Cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; eaves course.

SE (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Roll-moulded broad windows at ground to centre with corbels supporting fascia; bipartite window at 1st floor above with shouldered arches to lights; trefoil-headed window at 2nd floor above in gablehead breaking eaves, bipartite small windows to centre. Roll-moulded round-arched opening flanking bays at ground- door to outer left, plate glass rectangular fanlight, datestone at 1st floor; pend-opening to outer right, monogram at 1st floor.

NW ELEVATION: full-height projection to centre with further modern single storey addition linking modern 2-storey outer addition.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper storeys; fixed plate glass windows at ground. Slate roof. Ashlar coped stack.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

Statement of Interest

There was a building on this site in 1823. A photograph by AR Edwards from circa 1890 shows that this building has not been altered on the High Street elevation since that time.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771064

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  For the Record