Description

David Mackenzie, 1832. 4-storey, 6-bay to Castle Street, 7-bay to Exchange Street, quadrant bay to angle, tenemental building with public house and shopfronts at ground floor. Sandstone ashlar, ashlar dressings (some refaced in concrete), piended slate roof. Painted, pilastraded ground floor, Greek Doric columns in antis at angle, corniced frieze with 4 laurel wreath motifs to each elevation. Cill course to 1st and 2nd floor, eaves course, margined angles; mostly 2-pane timber sash and case windows, architraved and corniced to 1st floor, architraved to 2nd, margined to 3rd. Ashlar-coped skews, harled axial stacks, linked wallhead stack to Exchange Street.

CASTLE STREET ELEVATION: Close door to ground floor centre, 6 windows to 1st floor (additional small window between 1st and 2nd bays from right), 6 windows to 2nd and 3rd floor; slightly recessed quadrant bay to right, window to all floors.

EXCHANGE STREET ELEVATION: close door to ground floor 2nd bay from right, 7 windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor.

INTERIOR: Plaster ceilings and panelling to 1st floor front rooms; Two 20th century stained glass windows to 1st floor rear.

Statement of Interest

There is a suite of offices at the 1st floor entered from 40 Castle Street contemporary with Frank Thomson's office entrance of 1919, also listed.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17801406

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record