Description

Dated 1875. Symmetrical terrace of 4, 2-storey 2-bay houses on sloping ground with basements to rear. Variegated sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with polished dressings. Base course; channelled quoin strips and eaves band; stop-chamfered reveals to principal windows; doorways with dentilled cornices and blocking courses bearing tablets; overhanging bracketted eaves to centre block.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 8-bay with 2 houses to centre dominant; elevations mirrored about centre. Centre bays flanked to centre by 2 small windows at ground floor, datestone above; centre bays with doorways and windows at 1st floor (small additional window at ground floor to bay to left of centre); regular fenestration to next bays (corniced at ground floor to Nos 6 and 8); doorways to outer bays (without cornice to outer

right).

E ELEVATION: doorway to left; window to right.

W ELEVATION: small secondary doorway.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: recessed side wings of end blocks; houses to centre with 3-storey canted windows to outer bays and secondary doorways.

Timber sash and case windows, mostly 4-pane glazing, some replacement windows. Purple slate piended roofs; corniced mutual stacks. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

Low boundary wall to front with saddleback coping.

Statement of Interest

Listed in consideration of unusual design, as a long narrow terrace.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634649

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)