Description

Frank Burnet: 1876; 23-25 Belmont Sttreet and 27 La Crosse Terrace. Alexander Watt, 1877: 29 and 31 La Crosse Terrace: Large classical corner tenement range of very large flats, arranged in 4 5-bay blocks (west end block and No 29 Lacrosse Terrace missing), bays arranged in alternation of single, bipartite and tripartite windows, 1 flat to each floor. Finely polished ashlar with continuous channelled ground floor. Elaborately consoled and corniced doorpieces and 1st floor windows with profiled cills; simple upper-floor architraves dying into frieze. Deep mutule cornice.

Most chimneys (wallhead and gablehead) rebuilt or rendered. Plate glass sash and case windows, few altered.

REAR ELEVATION: squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings; some original multi-pane sash and case windows; some later dormers. Concrete tiled roof.

INTERIORS: not seen; possibly some original fireplaces and plasterwork.

Statement of Interest

No 29 Lacrosse Terrace in extremely poor condition at time of listing. Emergency demolition, 31 August 1998, under Dangerous Building Notice.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17813232

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014