Description
Burnet, Boston and Carruthers, dated 1903. Quadrant of
4-storey tenements curving up High Street; opposite earlier
quadrant listed separately; Scottish Renaissance detailing.
5-bay to Duke Street, gabled, chamfered corner bay and 23
bays to High Street, of 7 stepped tenements. Irregular and
asymmetrical design. Red sandstone ashlar, dividing piers
and pilasters, consoled ground floor cornice; alternating
pedimented and segmental entrances to closes, each flanked
by original shop fronts, metal-framed with plate-glass
and inverted canted doorways, timber pedimented with fanlight.
Variety of pedimented architraved 2nd floor windows; some
canted bays above ground, terminating in gablehead corbelled
to square or flanked by corbelled oriel at eaves. Some stone
mullioned bipartite windows; crowstepped and ashlar coped
skews with onion finials. Wallhead stacks. NW corner with
turret, jettied on billet course at 3rd floor, cone-roofed
with overhanging eaves.
CORNER BAY: advanced ground floor to chamfered bay, with
balustrade and clock set in segmental panel at centre;
bowed bay to recessed gable at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor,
balustrade, with strapworked panels, one inscribed City
Improvement Trust; bipartite window in gablehead with segmental
pediment and flanked by corbelled, cone-roofed tourelles, ball-finialled.
Balustrade to Duke Street elevation.
Plate-glass sash and case windows; slate roof. Some closes
retaining glazed tiling. Glasgow Style wrought-iron parapets
to canted bays.