Description

Early 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey with attic, 3-bay terraced house. Squared and snecked sandstone; tooled ashlar dressings. Cill course to 1st floor; cornice (overstepped by cornice of No 35); blocking course; downpipe recess to right of front elevation.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: windows to each floor of bays to centre and to right. Pilastered and corniced doorpiece with flushed panel door bay to left, radial fanlight; window at 1st floor above.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: extension shown on Sutter's map, at bay to left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with piended dormer to front (between centre and right bay); rendered end and mutual stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble with coping.

Statement of Interest

Wood's map of 1824 is not clear on the segregation of properties. The masonry and general appearance of this building would seem to indicate a similar date to Nos 31-35. Wood shows properties to the SE side Bellfield Street (then called Melville Street) which correspond in length to Nos 31-37, but instead he shows it as 3 properties. A cast-iron plaque (above ground floor window at centre), says: "Sir Walter Scott frequently visited this house June-July 1827, then occupied by his son-in-law, Lockhart and his family".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805842

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)