McCorquodales Printers (Former)
Date 1 June 2004
Event ID 904778
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/904778
Commercial buildings of 2 phases. Maxwell Street elevation: 4-storey and basement, 11-bay warehouse. Ashlar, painted at ground. Pilastered doorpiece at centre with fanlight, flanked by altered windows. Further simple doorways in outer right bay and 3rd bay from left. Frieze and moulded cornice above; ground floor. Upper floors grouped 3-5-3, and divided by giant pilaster strips cill or string courses. Windows at 1st and 2nd floor with broad pilaster divides and flanking architraved, round-arched bipartites at 3rd floor. Deep moulded eaves cornice. End stacks. Slate roof. Sash and case windows, plate-glass glazing to lower sashes and 2-light to upper at 1st and 2nd floor. Decorative iron railings to aprons of ground floor windows and basement openings.
Built for McCorquodales Printers, with features in common with their adjoining and contemporary premises in Howard Street. (Historic Scotland)
