Listed Building
The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.
Address/Name of Site
2-6 (EVEN NOS) HIGH STREET AND 1 AND 3 NORTHGATELB39198
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Date Added
- 29/03/1995
- Local Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Burgh
- Peebles
- NGR
- NT 25267 40480
- Coordinates
- 325267, 640480
Description
Dated 1885 and 1886. Substantial 3-storey commercial corner blocks with rich eclectic detail and corner turrets. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings and ground floor. Shop windows divided by shallow pilasters with fluted frieze; shouldered architraved windows; at 1st floor corniced with moulded aprons and floral and strapwork friezes; 2nd floor windows breaking eaves with dormer pediments carrying anthemion motifs, bracketted cills and incised lintels; banded cill course at 2nd floor; eaves cornice; regular fenestration.
S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay with 2-storey corner turret to outer right corbelled above ground floor over lion's head, roll-moulded tripartite windows and finialled conical roof with fishscale slating. Round-arched keystoned doorway to centre with rope moulding framed by fluted pilasters, pediment with shell and anthemion motif above. Panel dated 1886 at 1st floor. 1st floor windows to outer bays bipartite. 2 shouldered wallhead stacks. Plain shopfronts, moulded brackets to outer
right.
E (NORTHGATE) ELEVATION: 3-bay with corner turret to outer left (see above) and outer right (see below). Shop windows at ground floor. Left bay part of High Street building with bipartite window at 1st floor and gabletted skewputt. Centre and right bay with shell motif to dormer pediments.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled with broad apex stack. Corner turret corbelled above 1st floor with finialled conical roof and tripartite window. Basket-arched doorway in chamfered corner with corbelled chamfered panel dated 1885 above.
Timber sash and case windows, mostly 4-pane, northgate building with
2 pane lower and 4-pane upper sashes. Green slate piend and platformed roof with decorative iron brattishing. Mutual and wallhead stacks (see above).
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
Statement of Special Interest
Important display adding value to streetscape.
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About Listed Buildings
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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
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