Description

George Angus, 1832, following the plan of William Burn, 1824. 3-storey, classically-detailed block of shops, offices and flats arranged in 2 sections of 9 symmetrical bays, forming part of the

(mostly) unified Reform Street. Painted ashlar, concealed slate

roof. Shopfronts to ground floor, originally pilastered and balustraded but now mostly altered with balustrade remaining only at doorpiece to Nos 16-24 and at shopfront to Nos 26 and 28; cill band to 2nd floor, dentilled and corniced balustraded parapet, replaced at Nos 30 and 32 with incongruous attic storey. Architraved windows to 1st floor, plain to 2nd, originally 12-pane timber sash and case glazing pattern, now mostly 2-pane. Fluted Ionic-columned distyle in antis doorpiece to centre bay of each section (columns removed from Nos 26-32). Corniced axial stacks.

INTERIOR: fine plasterwork domed interior to No 16.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809576

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings