Description
J M Dick Peddie, Edinburgh, 1897. Imposing 2-storey and
attic, wide 4-bay bank with polished ashlar SW street
frontage ashlar NW gable with slightly lower continuous
2-storey, 2-bay rear wing, rubble SE gable and rear, polished
ashlar dressings. Street facade has narrow paired centre
bays with round-headed entrance and flanking round-headed
window both with decorative fanlights; paired centre
windows in 1st floor and in tall, shaped and finialled centre
gable, with relief carving of Britannia in apex. Wide outer
bays with transom and mullion windows in both floors.
Giant panelled pilaster strips with Ionic capitals
define bays terminating in high coped parapet. Moulded
cill, lintel and gable cornices; decorative band course to
gable. Parapet continues across SE gable as corbelled and
corniced band course, embracing centre upper 1st floor
window with segmental headed pediment, moulded jambs
and bracketed cill, flanked by single transomed windows in
1st floor outer bays.
Entrance to manager's house in NW gable; some 2-pane glazing;
small modern box dormer in front elevation; original
pedimented dormer to rear; corniced end ridge stacks; slate
roof.