Description

Attributed to James MacLaren, circa 1865. 2-storey and attic, L-plan corner block of houses and flats. Snecked rubble masonry with painted dressings, slate roof. Keystoned segmental-arched doors and windows with continuous lintel course; mainly 4-pane sash and case windows.

Tall shouldered wallhead stacks at E and W elevations, 5 ridge stacks.

S ELEVATION: 5-bay; central window, flanking doors with fanlights, 3 windows at 1st floor. Advanced gables left and right with raised long and short quoins, 2-storey canted windows with moulded parapets, small atticwindows; gables with skewputts, kneelers, rounded apex detail and ball finials (ball finial missing at left). 2 symmetrical canted dormers.

E ELEVATION: 12-bay; 3 windows at outer left (modern top-louvered, blocked at ground floor centre), thereafter alternate doors and windows at ground floor, 9 symmetrical windows at 1st floor. 5 canted dormers, 2 later box dormers with piended-roofs.

Statement of Interest

The site was acquired by Alexander Ramsay in 1863.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630352

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)