Marchmont House

A house thought to date from the mid-C18, later converted to shops.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed of red-brown brick with stone dressings, with a timber doorcase and a roof covering of slate. There are late C20, timber, glazed and tiled shopfronts.

PLAN: the building is rectangular on plan; it stands on the east side of High Street, with its main entrance facing west.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys across five equal bays which face onto High Street. The roof is pitched, with the ridgeline parallel to High Street, and there are ridge chimney stacks on either gable end wall. Its principal elevation is symmetrically arranged, although the ground floor has been substantially altered during the late C20. In the centre of the ground floor is a moulded timber doorcase with a pediment supported on console brackets, accessed via two curved stone steps. The door within is of the mid- to late C20. To either side are late C20 shopfronts, the southern shopfront continuing onto the south elevation. On the first floor are five timber six-over-six sashes under gauged brickwork heads with stone or stucco cills. Cutting across the window heads is an eaves cornice, possibly of timber. At either end of the principal elevation, continuing onto the north and south elevations, are brickwork quoins rising up to a moulded stone kneeler.

The north and south flank walls are blank, aside from a brick plat band running partially across the south elevation at first-floor ceiling height.

To the rear (west) is a full-width extension of two low storeys under a catslide roof. Two tall brick chimney stacks rise through the catslide, one on the south gable wall and one on the party wall between Numbers 363 and 364. There are three two-over-two timber sashes at first-floor level alongside a small, two-pane casement. Adjoining the main building to the rear is a single-storey, brick outbuilding of the mid-C20.

Listing NGR: SK9737270674