Description

Later 19th century. 3-storey, 5-bay symmetrical commercial chambers in bankers' classical, palazzo style with shops at ground. Rectangular plan in terraced site. Polished ashlar frontage to Argyll Square, random rubble with ashlar dressings to rear elevation and 2-storey projection. Architraved windows.

STREET ELEVATION: symmetrical stone shopfronts, stall risers, roll-moulded surrounds, with entrance doors to outer bays. Main entrance door to centre bay, round-arched, with keystone and roll-moulded surround. Door flanked by pilasters, on bases, with heavy decorative scrolled brackets supporting ball finialled dies, interlocked with shopfront cornice at 1st floor. String course at 2nd floor cill level, accented at ends around downpipes. Substantial bracketted cornice at eaves with blocking course above. 1st floor windows with cills, architraves splayed and vermiculated at base and with paterae motif near sash meeting rail, alternating triangular and segmental pediments above, supported on decorative scrolled brackets and panelled dies. 2nd floor windows architraved with scrolls at cills.

REAR ELEVATION: 3 bays, round-arched stair window to centre between 1st and 2nd floor. Plate glass timber sash and case window, 4-pane to rear except for stained glass stair window. Grey slate roofs, rear wing with 4-flue stack and octagonal cans centring ridge, skew copes removed.

Statement of Interest

An impressive symmetrical building, in the style of Peddie & Kinnear, presiding over the S side of Argyll Square. Alterations to the right hand shopfront are out of character but may be reversible.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17773486

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)