Description

Late 19th century. 3-storey, 2-bay flatted dwelling with shop at ground, with canted oriel windows, in irregular terrace. Sandstone ashlar with squared rubble. Moulded cill courses, eaves course and corniced dormerheads. Stone mullions.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical above ground. Ground floor with encaustic tiled entrance to in-canted shop door flanked by fixed display windows below bracketed frieze, and fine 9-panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight to outer left. 4-light oriels to each floor above, those to 2nd floor breaking eaves and rising into decoratively-finialled polygonal roofs.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar gablehead stacks with cans; ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts; 4 square-section cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

Statement of Interest

Situated in one of Stonehaven's principal shopping streets, this building is a good example of Stonehaven's surviving early commercial architecture retaining details of notable quality. Shop doorway formerly with single timber door.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata IDs Q77777932 Q77777936

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings