Description

HOUSE: circa 1800, 2-storey and dormerless attic house with
2-storey rear wing said to date from 1914. Rubble with tooled
ashlar dressings. Centre 2-leaf door; 2-pane glazing to
ground and 1st floor windows; diminutive E gable attic
window. Shaped copes to end stacks; slate roof.
2-storey, 2-bay rear wing at right angles facing W; 1st floor
window breaks wallhead under gablet. Slate roof.
GARDEN WALL: coped rubble garden wall encloses triangular
garden plot.

Statement of Interest

Change of Category: B for Group to B, 24/03/1988.

Appin House meets the criteria for listing for the following reasons:

• It is a typical example of a simple classical style early 19th century domestic building which survives largely in its original form to the exterior.

• The building retains many features characteristic of the building type for the period, such as its symmetrical proportions, margined openings and quoins, and corniced stone chimney stacks.

• Later additions and alterations to the exterior are of good quality and have not adversely affected the building's historic character.

• It is a prominent historic building in the streetscape.

• It forms part of an architecturally and historically significant group of other historic buildings of similar date and type which are also listed.

• This building forms an important pair with the neighbouring 13 Regent Street, also listed at category B (LB35655). The grouping forms part of the early development of the expansion of Keith to the north of the River Isla, dating to the first quarter of the 19th century.

• The building is not rare however it is a good surviving example within its building type.

• It has special social historical interest as it illustrates the growing prosperity of the town in a major phase of town planning development following the proposals laid out by the Earl of Fife from 1817.

The supplementary information in the listed building record was updated in 2024.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827054

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990