Description

Circa 1865-70. 4-storey 4-bay tenement with back platties.
Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings.
Front elevation: ground floor unaltered, 3 doors, 3
domestic and 1 small shop-window under broad band course.
Upper floors 4-bay, widely spaced to sides. 2nd and 3rd
cill courses.
Rear: central semicircular stair tower with semi-conical
slate roof and curved stair windows. Flagstone platties
and wrought-iron railings to flats.
Gable 2-bay, that to left blind except at ground. End
stack rebuilt in brick. Ridge and W stack stone.
Slate roof. Windows sash and case. 4-pane glazing pattern
to front, 12-pane to rear.
Rubble-built boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

Apparently built to house key workers at Lilybank

Foundry (Pearce Brothers, then WB Thompson, stationary

and marine engine-makers and millwrights). A good example

of a plattie without additional toilet tower.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806841

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)