Description

William and Lewis A Wallace, 1819-23. 3-storey and basement, 3-bay tenement in terraced site. Polished sandstone ashlar; polished V-jointed rustication at principal floor; rock-faced rustication at basement. (Former) cill course at 1st floor, windows extended down; cill course at 2nd floor; band course at principal and 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece in bay to left, comprising flush-panelled door with plate glass fanlight. Windows in bays to right; regular fenestration to floors above, with decorative cast-iron balcony spanning bays at 1st floor. Flagged basement area, with coped rubble retaining walls; vertically boarded timber doors to cellars.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows; cills lowered at 1st floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar dressings, coped with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

RAILINGS AND LAMP: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials. Cast-iron railing mounted lamp with glass globe.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17575095

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)