Description

Mid 19th century, raised and altered to rear circa 1900 (see Notes). Tall partly 3-storey (originally 2-storey) with basement, 3-bay gabled house. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar quoin strips and raised margins. Stone mullions.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay at ground with corniced, pilastered and concave-moulded doorcase, deep-set panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight, flat-roofed canted windows with brattishing to flanking bays, regular fenestration to 1st floor and small corbelled cornice to low centre bay above, round-headed bipartite windows in finialled gableheads of outer bays. Corbelled corniced skewputt details.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: extended 2-storey and attic elevation with raised basement projecting. Variety of elements including canted bay altered to incorporate centre projection, stair window and 2 piended canted dormers (see Notes).

N ELEVATION: largely blank gabled bay with lean-to boarded timber porch on ashlar base with multi-pane leaded glazing to 3 windows and similarly glazed upper panels to timber door on left return.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated gabled elevation with small brick extension to right of centre.

4-, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with full complement of polygonal cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding. Decorative cast-iron finials.

INTERIOR: plain cornices and timber fireplaces. Ground floor sitting room with later timber panels and gothic stone fireplace. Timber dog-leg staircase with barley-twist balusters and carved newels, and further 2nd floor staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters.

BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls. Carved panel set into N wall 'This garden wall is erected on the property of Thomas McComish 1812'.

Statement of Interest

Owing to the existence of a panel dated '1812' in the garden wall, it may be that there was an earlier house on the site. The current owner reports that the 2nd storey front gables are additions. Certainly, the unusual semi-piended roof and dormers at rear indicate a possible change from a traditional piended rectangle. The property originally extended westward into Burrell Street with stabling opposite. It may be that described by Porteous as "the house with door-pillars" which was occupied early in the 19th century by Mr John Tainsh, writer, who operated a branch of the Leith Bank from the house. By 1856 it was the home of James MacRosty, solicitor and agent for the City of Glasgow Bank.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776990

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)