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50 High Street, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6518 / 55°39'6"N

Longitude: -3.1907 / 3°11'26"W

OS Eastings: 325167

OS Northings: 640446

OS Grid: NT251404

Mapcode National: GBR 6352.0T

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y6RM

Plus Code: 9C7RMR25+PP

Entry Name: 50 High Street, Peebles

Listing Name: 50 and 52 High Street

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384801

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39203

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Peebles, 50 High Street

ID on this website: 200384801

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: House Shop

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Description

1877. 3-storey 4-bay Free Baronial house with shops at ground floor and pend opening. Cream sandstone ashlar to front, harl and whinstone rubble to rear. Stop-roll-moulded reveals; bracketted cills at 1st floor; 2nd floor jettied on moulded and crenellated course with mock canon spouts; 2nd floor windows breaking eaves in finialled and scrolled 17th century style pediments; eaves cornice.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: pend opening to outer right with wrought-iron fitting of hanging sign above; shopfronts to outer left and centre (altered) framed by scrolled brackets surmounted by shell motif. Shop to left panelled door and slender column with foliate capital. Regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floor. At 2nd floor to outer right wallmounted sundial inscribed 'Greenwich Solar Time' and dated 1877.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: harled gabled extension.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Green slate roof with metal flashings. Corniced apex stacks; ashlar skews with corbelled skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

Statement of Interest

A unique, imaginative design.

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