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Latitude: 55.6515 / 55°39'5"N
Longitude: -3.1899 / 3°11'23"W
OS Eastings: 325220
OS Northings: 640420
OS Grid: NT252404
Mapcode National: GBR 6352.6X
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Z65S
Plus Code: 9C7RMR26+J2
Entry Name: 27 High Street, Peebles
Listing Name: 27, 27A and 29 High Street
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384782
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39191
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Peebles, 27 High Street
ID on this website: 200384782
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
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Late 19th century; 18th century range to rear. 3-storey 3-bay building to street with pend and 2 shops at ground, and classical ornament; 2-storey range extends between wynds to rear.
N (STREET) ELEVATION: dressed cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; long and short quoins. At ground, pend to left; pair of timber shopfronts with set-back glazed doors and bipartite plate glass shop windows; divided and framed by fluted and panelled pilasters, outer with segmental cornice bearing garland cresting; linking cornice. Segmental-headed windows to upper floors with moulded architraves. At 1st floor, centre window with swan neck pediment joined by garland, and
shaped apron; flanking windows bipartite and pedimented. At 2nd floor, window to each bay; bracketed cill course. Eaves cornice.
Brick rear elevation.
Timber sash and case windows; 4-pane and plate glass. Grey-green slates; ashlar-coped skews; gablet skewputts; corniced ashlar dressed stacks; cast-iron eaves guttering.
RANGE TO REAR: harled; concrete and ashlar margins.
E ELEVATION: good doorpiece at ground to right; lugged architrave with egg and dart moulding, fluted frieze with rosettes and consoled cornice; panelled door; ashlar stone above inscribed IB MP 1672; good window at 1st floor with hollow architrave; consoled cill with fluted apron and central rosette; consoled cornice with guilloche frieze. Windows to left and forestair to gabled timber porch (27a) to 1st floor. Piend-roofed dormer to left.
W ELEVATION: irregular fenestration with etched stair window and piend-roofed dormer.
S ELEVATION: blank gable end.
Timber sash and case multi-pane windows. Grey slates; ashlar-coped skews; coped rendered stack.
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
The 1st floor window to the wynd is clearly re-using ornament form elsewhere or from earlier building on site.
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