Description

Robert Thomson, circa 1870 with later 5th and 6th floors
(1880s?). 6-storey, 5-bay commercial building; modern
shops at ground floor. Polished ashlar with vermiculated
quoins to 1st and 2nd floors with inset sculpted masks
between floors, segmentally pedimented doorpiece;
elaborate sculpture, granite shafts to outer colonettes
and to pilasters, sculpted frieze and tympanum with head.
All windows sash and case, plate glass; consoled,
segmentally pedimented with sculpted tympana at 1st
floor; 2nd floor floating cornices with ogee-headed panels
and sculpted heads above; 2nd floor cornice with sculpted
frieze; 3rd floor arched windows in panelled pilasters.
Consoled cornice, tripled in central bays, dentils. 4th
floor central window flanked by superimposed pilasters;
3-bay outer sections arcaded with recessed glazing; 5th
floor aediculed windows, raised and pedimented in centre.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808155

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (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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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)