Description

Walter Wood Robertson, 1893, alterations and additions by W T Oldrieve, 1907. 2-storey, 4-bay Baronial former Post Office with conical tower. Squared and snecked, bull-faced red sandstone; ashlar quoins. Cill courses at both floors; central string course.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance to conical-roofed penultimate bay to left; pilaster moulded corniced doorpiece; ovolo-moulded frieze; 2-leaf timber door; letterbox fanlight; horizontal rectangular light set in segmental pedimented head above; 2 narrow windows at 1st floor; rope-moulded string course to lower frieze of tower; finial at apex. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to bay to outer left; 1st floor window breaks eaves to form gable; decorative roundel to tympanum. Advanced crow-stepped gabled bay to penultimate bay to right; pair of 2-light mullioned and transomed windows at ground; corbelled 3-light mullioned and transomed window at 1st floor; segmental pediment broken by armorial panel; segmental pediment above. Advanced ground floor corbelled 2-light mullioned and transomed window to outer right at ground floor; pedimented head; 2-light transomed and mullioned window at 1st floor breaking eaves to form gable; finials at apex and skews. Ogee-roofed cupola between penultimate and outer bay to right; ball finial.

Variety of small-pane glazing patterns to timber windows. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; wallhead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: much altered. Original ceiling beams; dentilled frieze.

Statement of Interest

Former Post Office. Walter Wood Robertson held the post of Surveyor of Scotland, for Her Majesty's Board of Works.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17837937

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)