Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey and attic; semi-detached; tenement block with classical pilastered doorcase to principal (S) elevation. Coursed droved sandstone principal elevation; coursed sandstone rubble elsewhere; polished ashlar dressings. Droved base course and eaves course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central pilastered entrance with corniced entablature; plain timber door with rectangular fanlight. Flanking windows to each floor and one above; those to attic are later boxed dormers.

N ELEVATION: central semicircular-plan stairtower with catslide roof; central stairwindow; small opening below to right; entrance with panelled timber door and 5-pane rectangular fanlight to right return. Flanking windows set back to ground and 1st floors; small opening to left of outer right1st floor window. Low single storey outhouse wing of various dates projects forward to left; oldest intact section to N; window to right return.

W ELEVATION: blank gable end.

Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs; that to N section of outhouse wing is piended. Corniced end stacks to either side (E and W) of main block; tall coped stack to N section of outhouse wing; mainly octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1998).

OUTHOUSE TO NW: single-storey lean-to sandstone rubble outhouse with droved sandstone dressings to NW. 2 entrances with boarded timber doors to principal (E) elevation.

Statement of Interest

Plain classical design, little altered in external form, apart from later dormers. It appears to have been built as a tenement although with the appearance of a villa. It does not appear (although road laid out) on Wood's map.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776968

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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)