Description

Later 18th century. 2-storey, 4-bay house (4th bay to right added later). Rubble, N elevation squared and coursed. Raised margins, painted on ground floor N elevation. Angle margins. Deep base course. Cill course at 1st floor. Eaves course at lintel level. Ovolo moulded eaves cornice.

N (LONDON ROAD) ELEVATION: steps up to doorway at centre, with wrought-iron balustrade; decorative consoles to open pediment above archtraved doorcase; panelled door and 2-pane fanlight. Large garage door with wooden lintel in bay to outer right. Regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors.

E ELEVATION: window at ground and 1st floors to right.

W ELEVATION: chamfered reveals to 2 windows at 1st floor.

Plate glass glazing patern in sash and case windows. 2 slate-hung piended dormer windows with small-pane glazing pattern to S pitch.

Coped skews; rope-detailed skewputts with pedestals (for urns?) to N. Rendered stacks, gablehead to E, and to former end gable to W. Purple slates to main roof, grey slates to half-piended roof of later bay.

Statement of Interest

Groups well with Nos 1-5, and 8-11 London Road. Nos 1-5 London Road (see separate listing) are apparently the work of the same school of masons.

A house was built on the site of a former piend-roofed outbuilding to the rear of No 6 after 2013. Listed building record updated, 2022.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827592

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)