Description

George Beattie and Sons, 1873. Symmetrical 4-storey 4-bay Scots Baronial tenement with shops at ground floor. Crowstepped gable with wide apex stack to centre 2 bays, corbelled out at 2nd floor; flanking gabled dormerheads to windows breaking eaves at 3rd floor. Single storey and basement piend-roofed narrow block to rear. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, polished dressings and long and short quoins; painted ashlar at ground floor. String courses at 2nd and 3rd floors. Single and bipartite fenestration with stop-chamfered openings.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: consoled and moulded arcade to ground floor; central panelled timber single leaf door (to flats) with 2-pane glazed fanlight above; flanking 3-bay shops with stop-chamfered shouldered openings, timber panelled doors with glazed fanlights, flanking plate glass windows. Carved plaque to centre at 1st floor (see Notes). 2nd floor windows in segmental-arched recesses; bipartites to outer bays. 2-bay corbel table rising centrally from 2nd to 3rd floor; small central round-arched and canopied attic light.

Timber sash and case 4-pane original glazing. Grey slate roof; shaped skews; corniced stacks; circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: decorative cornice to shop at No 11.

Statement of Interest

Built by William and Duncan MacGregor, builders. Dean of Guild plans show that the corner block adjoining to the east was designed at the same time by George Beattie for MacGregor. The shopfronts are well-preserved and present a distinctive elevation to the High Street. The 1st floor plaque depicts the Nether Bow Port and is inscribed 'Erected 1873. Opposite this building stood the Nether Bow Port demolished 1764'. This building (illustrated in Grant, see above) was first mentioned in 1369, remodelled in 1606 and formed the east gateway to the city.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809014

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