Description

Alexander Ross, 1883-4, Baronial, snecked rubble. 3 storeys
with 4-storey corner block, shopfronts at ground floor
(original at No 3 Ness Walk). Nos 1-6 Ness Walk, 4-bay front,
bipartite windows at 1st floor; at 2nd floor, 1st and 2nd
windows tripartite surmounted by gablets, gablet over 2nd
crowstepped with chimney, 3rd and 4th windows with
gableted dormerheads. Corner block, 2-bay front to Ness Walk,
3rd floor windows with gabletted dormerheads; canted corner
corbelled to square at 2nd floor with granite column at
angle; to Young Street, at 3rd floor, crowstepped gablet
with oriel window and window with gabletted dormerhead.
No 3 Young Street, 2-bay front, right 1st floor window
bipartite, 2nd floor windows with gabletted dormerheads.

Statement of Interest

A fine example of a Scots Baronial tenement by pre-eminent local architect Alexander Ross, located on a prominent corner site on the W side of the Ness Bridge. It features good quality dormer detailing and the survival of an original shopfront at No 3 Ness Walk is notable.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17831062

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner 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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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)