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Alloa, 25 Kirkgate, Star House

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House (17th Century), Sundial (17th Century)

Site Name Alloa, 25 Kirkgate, Star House

Classification House (17th Century), Sundial (17th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Bauchop's House

Canmore ID 47216

Site Number NS89SE 53

NGR NS 88597 92609

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Elevation to street of 20th century 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.
Elevation to street of 20th century 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.Detail of central doorway rybats, bolection moulded surround and remains of window sill.Detail of sundial and carved shield above front door.View of entrance.View looking up at sundial and carved shield.View from SW.View of buildings at rear, 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.Alloa, 25 Kirkgate, Star House, NS89SE 53, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView from SE of front door and windows.View from S of eaves cornice and crow-stepped gable.Interior. View of remains of bolection moulded fireplace on E wall of ground floor apartment.Interior. Detail of base of fireplace above existing floor level.View from SW.View from E of house under scaffolding.View from SE.View from E.General view of 25 Kirkgate, Alloa, from south west.View of south crow-stepped gable, 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.View of facade and entrance to 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.View from W.View from S of front door and adjacent windows.View from E.View of house and Old Parish Church under scaffolding.View of entrance.View from W.View of gable, 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.Alloa, 25 Kirkgate, Star House, NS89SE 53, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView from S.Details of stonework including skew of 20th Centry, 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.Detail of shield and sundial above door of 25 Kirkgate, Alloa.Detail of first floor window on S elevation.Detail of SW angle showing eaves cornice, skewput and lowest crow steps.View from W.View from SE.View from W of house and Old Parish Church under scaffolding.View from W of house under scaffolding.View from S.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Clackmannan
  • Parish Alloa
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Clackmannan
  • Former County Clackmannanshire

Archaeology Notes

NS89SE 53 88597 92609

Architect: Tobias Bauchop for himself, 1695.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

This two-storeyed house was built in 1695 as the townhouse of master mason Tobias Bauchop. It was originally of L-plan form, the NE wing being altered in the 19th / 20th centuries. The walls are of ashlar and the gables crowstepped.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; RCAHMS 1933; A Drummond 1953; A T Simpson and S Stevenson 1983; NMRS Record Sheet CLR/5/1.

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Field Visit (26 June 1928)

RCAHMS County Inventory: Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan

Kirkgate, Alloa.

Tobias Bauchop, master builder and architect, who was connected with the building of Kinross House c. 1686 and of the steeple of the Town House of Dumfries (1), c. 1707, built this house in c. 1695 for his own occupation. It is oblong on plan and two storeys in height. The front is built of ashlar with rusticated quoins, and, though simply treated, is well proportioned, while the detail is carefully wrought. The entrance, centred in the front, has been altered. The windows have delicately moulded architraves with lugs.

SUNDIAL. Between the two upper windows is a fine projecting sundial with a carved top, borne on a grotesque head. Below the dial a garland encloses a cartouche bearing the date 1695 and the initials T.B. and M.L.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 26 June 1928.

(1) Inventory, Dumfriesshire, No. 127.

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Photographic Survey (January 1965)

Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Work in January 1965.

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