Description

Earlier 18th century. Baroque 2-storey 5-bay town house
with piended shallow-recessed flanking bays (these with
simpler detailing, but seemingly original); raised basement
and attic to Whitesands (W); minor low additions. Set back
from Irish Street behind high garden wall. Renovated by
J M Bowie, 1923. Built of brick with ashlar dressings,
lugged and keystoned architraves and rusticated quoins;
mostly painted, except at W. E elevation: central
rusticated doorway, ashlar shallow-raised panel over linked
to window cill above, 1st floor windows are roughly square
and have bracketted cills; lintels linked to eaves band.
Small-paned sash windows with vertical glazing pattern.
Main cornice; skews; corniced brick end stacks; slated
roof, slightly bell-cast. Low addition linked to recessed
bay right built of painted droved ashlar and with bowed
S-facing bay. W elevation: basement is rubble-built
(containing single long barrel-vaulted room) and with early
steep-gabled central porch (?by Bowie, 1923) built of red
ashlar, stair window above between floors. Plain margined
windows; 2 bipartite dormers.
Interior: some good fielded panelling survives; timber
stair; cornice plasterwork.
Courtyard to W flanked by 2 low outbuildings, screen wall
with central gate to Whitesands, corniced square piers with
pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Said to have been the town house of the Gilchrists of Speddoch.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17570312

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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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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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)