Description

James Newlands, builder and contractor, 1906. Pair
single storey and attic, 2-bay houses. Bullfaced rubble
sandstone with exaggerated bullfaced dressings. Paired
centre entrances, each with panelled door and narrow
side light with Art Nouvaeu coloured glazing. Slightly
advanced bipartite ground floor window with crenellated
wallhead. Single centre shaped gable with bipartite window
flanked in outer bays by crowstepped gabled dormer;
all dormers break wallhead. 2-pane glazing. Corniced end
stacks; slate roof.
Garden abuts W gable of No 8.
Garden walls: exaggerated bullfaced rubble coped garden
walls front houses with square gatepiers in similar style
surviving to flank pedestrian entrance to No 8. Garden
wall fronting St Catherine's Place (No 8 Forteath Avenue)
with tooled bullfaced roundels in centre of each section of
wall delineated by rustic pilasters.

Statement of Interest

Plans appear to have been drawn by James Newlands himself.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830937

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy