Publication Account

Date 1999

Event ID 1019020

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019020

The domestic dwellings in the 'upper town' exhibit a range of designs and architectural styles which contrast with tile simple and highly functional houses of the Fishertown. Both areas, however, reflect, in their own ways, the growing prosperity of nineteenth-century Nairn. During this period, housing slowly spread away from the urban core to the west and south-west onto available land. Early examples, such as nos 8 and 9 Bath Street figure 22.j, are of relatively simple design with two storeys and attics and share a common working yard. They are, nonetheless, elaborate in their decoration, with polished ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, cornices, pilastered doorpieces and architraved windows.

Information from - ‘Historic Nairn: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).