Description

10 bay, grouped 4-1-5, 3 storey with basement and attic, terraced corner tenement with shopfronts at ground. Sandstone ashlar. Bow bay to W elevation, fascia band, projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor, band course between 1st and 2nd floors, eaves band, ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (BROUGHTON STREET) ELEVATION: 6 bays at ground, door with fanlight and flanking plate glass shop windows to bowed bay to right; stone mullioned tripartites to each floor above. Pilastered and corniced doorpiece to right and right of centre with flanking plate glass shop windows; regular fenestration above with 2 piended dormers.

N (FORTH STREET) ELEVATION: 7 bays at ground, entrance with fanlight in 2nd bay, blocked entrance and fanlight in 5th bay, shop windows to remaining bays. Rustication in bay to right with window in round-arched recess. Regular fenestration above. 2, 3-light bowed dormer (canted lights).

Timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, grey slates, cast iron railings.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Originally listed with 3-29 (odd nos) Forth Street and 12 Union Street. Forth Street (excluding 4-10), Picardy Place and at least 1-5 Broughton Street, 1-12 Union Street and Union Place were designed by Robert Burn in 1800 for the Commissioners for the Improvement of Manufacturers in Scotland. Building began on the north side circa 1803-1804 and on the south side about 1805. See OEC v 25 p.30.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569147

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)