Architecture Notes

Event ID 770763

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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ARCHITECT: Basil Spence, 1950

Winner of Saltire Award for housing design 1951-2.

Local red sandstone rubble and harled walls. Bright colour on walls, doors, windows, iron-work. Red pantile roofs.

Saltire Society, 1952

Very traditional in form, and using traditional materials. External stair access. Housing Act of 1949 provided additional subsidies for use of traditional materials to preserve local character.

H R Rutherford, 1998