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38, 40, 42 High Street, Stonehaven

A Category C Listed Building in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.9613 / 56°57'40"N

Longitude: -2.2057 / 2°12'20"W

OS Eastings: 387586

OS Northings: 785577

OS Grid: NO875855

Mapcode National: GBR XK.2ZQC

Mapcode Global: WH9RN.29X8

Plus Code: 9C8VXQ6V+GP

Entry Name: 38, 40, 42 High Street, Stonehaven

Listing Name: 36 - 42 (Even Nos) High Street

Listing Date: 25 November 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 387948

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41630

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200387948

Location: Stonehaven

County: Aberdeenshire

Town: Stonehaven

Electoral Ward: Stonehaven and Lower Deeside

Traditional County: Kincardineshire

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Later 19th century, altered at ground. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay (above ground) Scots style terraced tenement with 2nd floor windows breaking eaves into dormer heads, and corbelled chimney breast. Ground floor shop openings altered to domestic. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Moulded cill band at 1st floor. Crowstepped gables.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 8-bay ground floor comprising modern timber door with plate glass fanlight in bay to left of centre, 2 windows beyond to left and pedestrian pend opening (Steele's Close) with timber gate at outer left; 4 irregularly-disposed windows to right in former shopfront openings. Regular fenestration to each floor above, with blind panel high up to centre of corbelled chimney breast piercing gablehead at centre, and pedimented gablets to outer bays.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in varied types of timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates with stone ridge. Coped squared rubble stacks with thackstanes and cans; ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts, and beak skewputts to dormerheads.

Statement of Interest

Of interest for its date and its prominent location on the High Street of Stonehaven's Old Town. Originally known as Victoria Buildings, with shops at the ground floor.

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