Description

James Thomson, dated 1911 and 1912. 2-storey, 7-bay, Baroque-detailed post office and office building on prominent corner site. Ashlar, some stugged and rock-faced rubble with channelled dividing pilasters at ground and ashlar dressings; harled to side and rear. Deep chamfered base course, ground and 1st floor cornices, deep frieze and eaves cornice. Lugged and architraved doors and 1st floor windows also with moulded aprons; large stepped keystones; stone mullions.

N (WAGGON ROAD) (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced pilastered and keystoned centre bay at ground incorporating keystoned, roundheaded bipartite window over fielded panel, 3 windows to flanking bays. 1st floor with dominant decoratively-pilastered centre bay rising into stepped balustrade with flanking stacks and incorporating bipartite window with apron dated 'AD MCMXI' and keystone with crown over 'GR' flanked by 'POST' 'OFFICE'; 2 closely-aligned windows to flanking bays.

NW (EAST PIER STREET) (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: window (converted from door?) to centre bay at ground floor with flanking full-height pilasters and flanking windows, all over painted/altered? panels; further windows to penultimate bays and timber doors to outer bays. Centre bay at 1st floor with cartouche bearing relief-carved galleon and panel in frieze dated 'MCMXII' giving way to semicircular stone pediment at eaves, broad canted windows to flanking bays and further single window to outer left.

NE (REGISTER STREET) ELEVATION: single bay elevation with door at ground and window above.

2-pane lower sashes with plate glass upper glazing pattern to most 1st floor windows, plate glass glazing elsewhere, all in timber sash and case windows. Piend roof with green/grey slates and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans; ashlar-coped skews; cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: stone staircases with decorative cast-iron balusters and dado rails; some panelled shutters.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rock-faced boundary walls with ashlar quoins and square-section gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Local architect James Thomson designed a number of successful combined tenement and shops in both South Street and North Street. The Post Office was formerly situated in South Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780292

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)