Description

1897, builder Mr Wood. Single storey, piend roofed shop on corner site and closing irregular terrace. Dominant timber clock tower. Squared and snecked, dressed rubble with dry dash and stone margins. Base course. Timber mullions and mock timber framing to gableheads.

CLOCK TOWER: 2 stage, black and white clock tower with raked slate plinth straddling lower roof pitch to E, timber dividing courses and corner strips. 1st stage with clock to each face. 2nd stage louvred with finialled timber gablet also to each face.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 leaf timber door in gabled, finialled doorway to right in chamfered corner. Projecting rectangular display window with finialled gablehead.

6 pane glazing pattern over plate glass glazing in fixed timber display windows. Grey slates. Overhanging eaves, decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials.

INTERIOR: inner door glazed with decorative astragals and plate glass fanlight.

Statement of Interest

The clock tower was a gift from Mr Waldegrave Leslie of Leslie House to commemorate Queen Victoria?s Jubilee of 1897. In 1907 the shop belonged to Mr A Beath, chemist.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56647957

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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