Description

David Barclay, architect; circa 1900. 13-bay terrace of 6
houses on steeply sloping site. 2-bay, 2 storey and basement
except No 45, 3-bay 3-storey house. Polished red sandstone,
stugged at basement.
Steps oversailing basement to pilastered doorway, double leaf
panelled doors with curved ashlar lintel, fanlight with small
pane glazing, sidelights with decorative heads. Bipartite
window above door. To right, 4-light full-height bow window.
Sash windows, plate glass, small pane glazing to upper sashes
of 1st floor windows. Continuous band courses over ground at
end houses. Overhanging eaves supported on timber brackets.
Corniced axial stacks, slate roofs, tile cresting, skews at
party walls and decorative skew-putts.
Solid coped parapet to steps. Ashlar retaining/boundary wall
to garden.
No 45: 3-bay, 3-storey with full-height bow windows flanking
door.
No 47 with 3-light bow dormer to right, bipartite dormer to
left.
Flank to Dowanhill Street single bay with 5-light bow to
ground; adjoins No 106 Dowanhill Street. 106 Dowanhill Street
similarly detailed: asymmetrical 2-bay elevation with steps
(modern) to advanced left bay with small leaded lights. Right
bay with bow to ground, 2 single light windows to 1st.
Dormers set in slate mansard roof. Coursed ashlar flank.

Statement of Interest

Part of Dowanhill Street B group.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805818

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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