Description

Dated 1885. 3-storey with upper breaking eaves. 7-bay commercial building with gabletted dormers. Squared buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, ground floor shop fronts, corniced signage fascia, first floor cornice bearing gutter, eaves band course. Single, bipartite and tripartite windows to first floor in lugged surrounds. Gable-headed bipartite dormers. Low relief bust of Water Scott with legend 'Watch Weal' to centre of 1st floor.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Purple slate roof.

INTERIOR: largely modernised.

Statement of Interest

34 and 46 Channel Street is perhaps the best preserved of the later 19th century commercial buildings on Channel Street. While relatively modest, the building consists of an long stretch of unaltered façade, including, most unusually in the context, the original layout of the shop fronts. The building, which was built at the height of the success of the town, is an important reminder of the quality of the building in the main commercial street during the period.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77779588

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)