Description

Later 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 4-bay building (grouped 2-2) in terrace. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings at 1st floor and painted at ground; whinstone rubble with droved ashlar dressings to rear with various additions to rear of No 11, some pebbledashed. Base course, cornice between ground and 1st floor; deep eaves course; stop-chamfered arrises.

SE (MARKET PLACE) ELEVATION: 2-bay to right advanced from line of 2-bay group to left and slightly taller. Windows to each bay at 1st floor of each 2-bay group (closer disposition in narrower 2-bay group to right). Deep-set glazed shop door to centre of 2-bay group to right flanked by windows. Rounded corner to advanced 2-bay group; 2-leaf boarded door flanked by window to left and round-arched pend-entrance to right.

NW ELEVATION: 2-storey and single storey additions projecting to rear of No 11.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to 1st floor of No 11; modern glazing to 1st floor of No 12. 2-pane fixed windows at ground of each. Pitch and platform slate roof, each with skylight and ashlar coped skews. Piended canted dormer to centre of No 12; 2 to No 11. Ashlar coped mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

Statement of Interest

The buildings are currently linked internally with No 10 Market Place. No 11 Market Place is shown on 2nd edition OS map (1865) to be the Cross Keys Inn.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771217

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide