Description

Built 1880. 2-storey and attic, purple sandstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings. Main frontage has central bay and end bays advanced. Central gabled bay has Tudor arched doorway with hoodmould, 2 leaf door with ornamental wrought iron hinges, and flanking single windows. At first floor tripartite mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould raised in Centre over panel. Small attic window. Gable has slightly projecting thin skews and cast-iron finial. End bays, linked to centre by plain 3-bay sections, are gabled, with bipartite windows at ground and first, small attic window as centre. Gable treatment as centre. Base course stairs to door replaced by ramp. Roof Scotch slates, with sheet iron ridge ventilators, ridge chimney stacks flanking central bay. Where centre bay roof meets main ridge octagonal cupola with Roman Doric columns, plain frieze and cornice and steeply pitched slated roof rising to circle of brattishing with finials. Within column ring louvred ventilator. Sides and rear unremarkable. Small lodge cottage in similar style to main block with central doorway flanked by bipartite to left and single window to right. All windows, except small ones and upper panes of tripartite, 4-pane sash and case.

Statement of Interest

Built 1880 as Lanark Poorhouse. A good example of a late-Victorian poorhouse, unaltered externally.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17852140

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair