Description

James MacLaren 1868-9, 3 4-storey tenements, coursed
rubble with ashlar details, stepped in fall of ground.
Nos 1 and 3: 3-bay with outer bays canted through 3 floors,
interlaced carving at aprons of 1st floor, balcony fronts
bipartite at 3rd floor. Shallow projecting pilastered
centre bay; centre stair door with side windows decorative
frieze and consoled cast-iron balcony (that at No 1 missing)
over. Bipartites above, finely detailed at 1st floor, between
pilaster strips and consoles, simpler detailing, 2nd and
3rd floors. Central vertically channelled wallhead stack.
Elevation to Hawkhill 4-bay with central consoled doorway
beneath shield inscribed "Gowrie Place 1868". Single and
bipartite windows, with scroll decoration at ground floor,
bracketted cills and cornices at 1st, aprons at 2nd and cill
course at 3rd floor.
No 5: 5-bay tenement in similar style but less finely
detailed than Nos 1 and 3, with end bays canted and central
bipartites over entrance. Cill-level band courses. Double
wallhead stack with central bipartite.
Slate roofs with ridge stacks. Pilaster strips mark party
walls between tenements and at angles with terminating urns.
Low boundary walls and square gatepiers.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808245

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)