Description

1879. 2 storey, 3-bay detached house with bracketed eaves, bargeboarded dormers, and former shop at ground floor. Snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. Long and short quoins. Stop-chamfered corners to all openings. Central 2-leaf timber panelled door with brass door knobs in shouldered surround. Large flanking shop windows in shouldered openings with central cast-iron column glazing bar. Elliptical-arched windows above breaking eaves with decorative barge-boarded dormerheads. Slightly tapered gablehead stacks.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floor; plate glass lights at ground. Plain bargeboards to gables. Coped stacks with yellow clay cans. Graded grey slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative brackets to downpipes.

RAISED PAVEMENT AND BOUNDARY WALL: raised pavement in front of house with plain cast-iron railings and stone steps at each end. Battered, ashlar-coped, random rubble boundary wall to side.

Statement of Interest

A well detailed house with its shop windows retained in their original condition. Built for Mr Meldrum, the butcher. The business later passed on to Harry Blyth, who lived at 25 Bridge Road (the house behind this one), and kept his poultry live, in cages, in front of the shop. During the mid-twentieth century, this building was the village Post Office.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779860

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)