Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, near rectangular-plan house with forestair to outer left. Coursed sandstone. Base course; 1st floor cill course; eaves course; cornice; blocking course; strip margins. Painted architraved margins to window openings; cill blocks to ground floor.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central pilastered, corniced, block-pedimented doorpiece; 2-leaf timber door; fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor. Flanking bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors. Railed steps lead to recessed entrance to No 6; corniced and block-pedimented doorpiece; 2-leaf timber door.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows (4-pane to central 1st floor window). Grey slate roof; stone skews; coped stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

RAILINGS: painted Fleur-de-lis railings surmount ashlar copes to steps to No 6.

Statement of Interest

Using the earlier adjacent 2 Queen's Terrace and 18 Bath Place as an architectural example, Nos 4 and 6 shares mutual base, eaves, cornice and blocking courses. An obvious later detail to Nos 4 and 6 is the use of bipartite windows.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774027

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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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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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments