Description

Sir Frank Mears & Partners, in collaboration with Stirling Burgh Architect, conceived 1938, realised post-war, circa 1955. 3-bay, 2-storey. Traditional tenement. Polished ashlar, E elevation harled

S (BAKER STREET) ELEVATION: shops at ground. Window to centre at 1st and 2nd floor flanked by windows with narrow lights flanking giving tripartite effect at 1st and 2nd floors.

E (MORRIS TERRACE) ELEVATION: projecting cills, door at with roll moulded surround in full height cantered stair tower at NE corner, windows to upper floors in faces flanking E face.

N ELEVATION: bipartite stone mullions to centre at ground, windows to right and left, right smaller. Above at 1st floors, small window to centre, slightly larger window to right and window to left.

uPVC tilt and turn windows, grey slates, stacks in E and W gables.

Statement of Interest

B Group with Nos 56 and 58, 60, 62, 70 and 72, 74, 76, 78 Baker Street. Late example of traditional Scottish burgh revival design, part of a wider development akin to earlier works such as those of Ebenezer J MacRae in Edinburgh.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771955

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)