Description

Circa 1900. 4-storey 5-bay tenement with shops at ground floor. Cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and snecked rubble to rear and side. Continuous cornice above shopfronts; canted windows corbelled above ground floor on ornamental consoles; moulded cill course at 3rd floor; eaves cornice with red fireclay balustrade; architraved windows; stop-chamfered reveals to canted windows; pulvinated frieze to single windows at 1st and 2nd floor; single windows at 1st floor pedimented, at 2nd floor corniced.

W (MORNINGSIDE ROAD) ELEVATION: original shopfronts Nos 37 and 39 with recessed tiled doorways, slender timber mullions, pedestaled pilasters with fluting and floreate carving; common stair No 35 with panelled door, dentilled cornice and rectangular fanlight with border glazing. Centre bay with tall cross-sectioned corniced wallhead stack breaking balustrade and linked to roof, corbelled at 2nd and 3rd floor. Bay to left and right of centre with single windows to each floor. Outer bays with 3-storey canted window.

N ELEVATION: gabled with 2 corniced wallhead stacks; single windows to each floor of centre bay.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Slate roof with lead flashings; 3 wallhead stack (see above), mutual rendered stacks. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Statement of Interest

Continuous design with Nos 41-45 Morningside Road and 1-5 Church Hill Place and probably designed by the same architects, J R & E E Pearson.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811602

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy