Description

Earlier 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical house on corner site. Painted render; raised, painted dressings. Base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Raised long and short quoins and surrounds to openings to South Beach; raised margins to Academy Street; projecting cills; pilastered doorpiece.

SW (SOUTH BEACH) ELEVATION: part-glazed replacement timber door centred at ground; surrounding doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone; single window aligned at 1st floor. Single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right.

NW (ACADEMY STREET) ELEVATION: boarded timber door at ground off-set to left of centre; single windows at both floors in flanking bays. Small single window at 1st floor off-set to right of centre; single windows at both floors in bay to outer right.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case glazing; some replacement glazing to Academy Street; various skylights. Graded grey slate piended roof; replacement rainwater goods. Coped, rendered wallhead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Interest

Adapted in part to form a dentist's surgery. Note the pilastered doorpiece, 12-pane timber glazing and prominent long and short dressings. A photograph depicted in McEwan's book shows the property as having had a low coped wall with railings and square-plan piers enclosing the site to the front.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56647528

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings