Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey 3-bay classical bank and bank manager's house. Grey sandstone ashlar frontage, squared and coursed at side and rear; base course, rusticated quoins and eaves cornice.

S ELEVATION: doorway at centre with architraved surround and ornately carved consoled pediment; 2-leaf panelled doors. Tripartite architraved windows in flanking bays at ground with semi-circular pediments breaking cornice above centre light. Decorative cill brackets to lugged archtiraves of 1st floor windows, single window at centre, bipartite in outer bays. Slate hung flat-roofed dormer addition.

W ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground to left and 2 1st floor windows widely spaced.

E ELEVATION: abutted by East Lothian Co-operative building.

Plate glass glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Overhanging eaves to piend roofs; grey slates. Corniced end stacks. Decorative gutterhead retained.

Statement of Interest

Classical details echo those used by Robert Matheson, in the terraces of Grovesnor Street, Edinburgh, 1865.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792822

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)