Description

Circa 1845. 2-storey, 11-bay symmetrical terrace in style of Jacobethan alms houses, mirrored about centre. Stugged, squared and snecked cream sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Raised margins; chamfered arrises. Long and short quoins.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to doorways in bays flanking centre and in outer bays, comprising 4-panel timber doors, 6-panel in bay to left of centre, with plate glass rectangular fanlight, diamond-pattern rectangular fanlight in bay to outer right, windows above at 1st floor; regular fenestration to remaining bays at ground and 1st floor, with bipartite windows in bays at ground and 1st floor at centre, and in alternating bays.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single windows to ground and 1st floors to E and W respectively.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1999. Boarded doors to lean-to extension to S; glass-panelled door and windows to lean-to to N; single windows to 1st floor above.

Predominantly timber lozenge-pattern glazing, some replacement small-paned timber sash and case windows to rear. Grey slate roof; slate-hung rectangular dormers to rear. Ashlar gablehead and ashlar and rendered paired ridge stacks; coped, with circular and octagonal cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low, coursed and coped boundary wall to street.

Statement of Interest

No 39-41 is now used as veterinary surgery. The unusual windows appear to be unique to the area and, according to local sources, were made by a French prisoner of war. The houses were originally known as John Terrace and owned by A Cowan and Sons Papermills of Valleyfield Penicuik.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17828693

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record