Description

Dated 1876. 3-storey corner shop and tenement on falling ground with shaped gable to angled corner and 2nd floor pedimented windowheads breaking eaves. Bull-faced squared and snecked rubble with contrasting raised ashlar dressings. Moulded dividing courses. Tabbed margins. Stop-chamfered arrises. Continuous frieze and cornice over shops at ground to both streets.

N (CORNER) ELEVATION: broad door to ground with window to each floor above in full-height ashlar panel with moulded to cill to 1st floor window, incised panel 'COMMERCIAL PLACE' between floors and datestone in gablehead giving way to tiny carved shield and stack; steeply pitched shaped gable extends to main eaves.

NE (COMMISSIONER STREET) ELEVATION: part-glazed panelled timber door with 2-part fanlight to right of centre at ground, blocked bay beyond and 2 fixed display windows to outer right. 2 traditional shops to left flanking deep-set panelled timber door. Regular fenestration to 4 bays above with 2nd floor as above.

NW (KING STREET) ELEVATION: steeply falling ground. Fixed display windows to left at ground, with modern shop to right. Regular fenestration to 3 bays above with 2nd floor windows breaking eaves into stone-pediment windowheads.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to 2nd floor N, NW and bays to right at NE. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans. Moulded bargeboarding with moulded skewputts to shaped gable.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776913

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