External Reference
Date 6 September 2012
Event ID 927907
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/927907
Frank Burnet and Boston, architects, 1897. 6-storey and
attic, red sandstone ashlar Baronial office building. Irregular
7-bay elevation with squat 2-stage tower rising from eaves to
right. Altered ground floor with large vehicle entrances to
end bays, central main entrance with polished pink granite
surround, consoled pedimented rouch-arched doorway. Sculpted
tympanum, depressed arch fanlight.
All windows bipartite with fixed upper part, narrower at end
bays. All windows modern pivot plate-glass. Cornice over
ground, mutule cornice over 1st, 3rd and 4th floors with
windows divided by giant order engaged composite columns.
Heavy cornice over 4th. To right, octagonal turret with
bracketted balustraded parapet. Brick flanks, some box dormers,
slate roofs.
Information from Historic Scotland, 6 September 2012