Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 979388

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/979388

a) A plasterers workshop showing the artistry that was achievable in the 1880s in Portland cement, coloured in the building facing a pend that has a magnificent neo classical pediment. Facing the street the rendered treatment has a more flowing gothic style. Burness and Sons used their premises as advertisement; now a Shoe shop.

b) A three-storey canvas factory of c1820-40 in which the ground floor and perhaps first floor held the handlooms, and the top floor was a warping loft at its north end, the louvers subsequently filled with brick. The combination of brick and two types of stone - whin and sandstone - that weathered very differently led to the decision to render the whole building when it was converted into a hotel

M Watson, 2013