Description

Circa 1820, with later alterations. Mirrored pair of 2-storey with basement, 6-bay terraced classical houses. Finely droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, rubble side elevation to No 42, harled side elevation to No 44, rubble to rear. Band course between basement and ground, cill course to 1st floor, mutuled cornice and blocking course; moulded architraves to windows at ground and 1st floor, cornice to windows at ground.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9 steps to Doric corniced colonnade doorpiece to centre with modern doors with multi-paned semicircular fanlight and windows at 1st floor above each. Windows to each floor of flanking bays, except to basement of No 44, where wooden slatted facing and doors.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: modern maps indicate external staircases.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, with terracotta ridge tiles to No 44. Rendered gable end stack to No 42, harled stack to No 44.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared render with coping to No 42; concrete to No 44 and incomplete. Original railings between the properties at steps.

Statement of Interest

Listed Cat. B despite alterations and condition as an integrally good classical terraced pair. The houses date from before 1824, as they appear on Wood's map, and according to W Baird, few houses were built before the 1820s, although the land had been feued and planned in 1802.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806784

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)