Description

Alexander Cullen, dated 1904. 3-storey, 'Glasgow style' tenement on corner site, with shops at ground floor and angle turret. Cream sandstone ashlar. Partially corbelled ground floor cornice, wallhead course; single, bipartite and 3-light canted windows with original sash and case glazing, plate glass to bottom, 4- and 6-pane to top; corniced stacks with uniform terracotta cans.

QUARRY STREET ELEVATION: modern shopfront to ground floor; single window flanked by 2 corniced bipartites at 1st floor, similar pattern at 2nd floor (not corniced) with diamond pattern aprons; angle bay to right, door at centre with remains of dated decorative pediment (doorpiece removed), oriel window to upper floors rounded at 1st floor, decorative corbels to polygonal 2nd floor and blocked parapet, set-back octagonal turret with oval windows and finialled domical roof, outshot stacks to left and right rising from ground floor cornice through wallhead.

KEMP STREET ELEVATION: modern shopfront to ground floor, single pedimented window to 1st floor, single window above, 2-storey canted window to right with raised parapet.

INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

This building is part of the Quarry Street/Kemp Street development formerly known as Templehall Buildings, built by Bailie Kemp on former orchard grounds.

STOTHER'S LANARKSHIRE records 'The houses are all of the better class and are occupied by the middle and working classes. These houses are fitted up with the latest improvements, including electric light, as well as gas, and well-lighted bathrooms'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17851463

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