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Treasured Places
Event ID 567418
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567418
Golden Ocean Chinese Restaurant/ Coffee Shop, late 19th century A handsome house on a prominent corner site built for the merchant James Reid, with c.1830s-style external detail in cement work and good plasterwork in the upper rooms. Still often referred to as the Town House, it stands on the site of the former tolbooth. The shaped wallhead gablet is echoed elsewhere in Cromwell Street, see Nos 59-63 dated 1886, a commercial premises with neo-Jacobean touches. Other buildings with presence and good detailing include McNeills (formerly Cromwell's Building), c.1825, on the site of the short-lived market square, with rusticated detailing similar to Amity House.
