Description

Circa 1760. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay tenement with shop at ground floor, Venetian window to attic gable, and stairtower to rear; now forms end of terrace. Cream and pink sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; rendered side gable wall. Projecting cills.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: later tenement door with glazed sidelight and fanlight in bay to outer left; 1960s plate glass shopfront in

bays to centre and outer right. Single windows to each bay at 1st

and 2nd floors above. Central gabled and keystoned Venetian window

above eaves (plastic repairs to dressings); gablehead stack.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Advanced bowed stairtower in bay to

outer right; single windows between each floor. Single windows to each

floor in bay to outer left and in return to stairtower; 3rd floor window breaking eaves. Carved heraldic panel set to lower left of 1st floor window: initialed JG and CP, and dated 1687.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: rendered; no openings. 4-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped gablehead stack.

BOUNDARY WALL: rubble boundary wall adjoining to E.

Statement of Interest

The carved stone appears to have belonged to John Gibson, writer, and

Christian Porteous, who purchased the site in about 1687. A feu

contract of 17/4/1778 for the neighbouring "Buccleuch Pend"

tenement (demolished 1947) states that the feu was bounded to the

south by a tenement belonging to John Gibson. As the tenement does not

appear on Cooper's 1759 map, it seems likely that it was constructed shortly afterwards by the son or grandson of Gibson and Porteous, at which time the date stone was incorporated.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796077

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  For the Record
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6