Description

Dated 1903. 3-storey, wedge-plan, commercial premises with dwellings above, on corner site with polygonal angle rising to towerhead. Stone-cleaned ashlar, harl to rear. Cornices to each floor, moulded cill courses and mutuled eaves to tower. Chamfered arrises.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern doorway in chamfered bay to ground, tripartite window to each floor above, and glazed oculus (see Notes) over centre light breaking eaves into finialled roof.

E (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: modern display windows to ground, bipartite window to each floor above.

N ELEVATION: as E elevation.

NW (NORTH STREET) ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation (altered at ground) with variety of elements including dated rainwater hopper.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Coped brick stacks with full complement of cans; ashlar-coped skews and cast-iron downpipe with dated rainwater hopper to NW.

Statement of Interest

An example of the burgh's popular corner towers, closing the

N end of the High Street. The glazed oculus formerly housed a clock.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77775628

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)