151 And 153 High Street, Newburgh

151 and 153 High Street in Newburgh are late 18th century buildings with some 19th century alterations. No 153 is a two-storey, three-bay terraced house with a narrow base course and a cill course at the first floor. The painted ashlar front features the lettering 'NEWSAGENT M. G. FARQUHARSON CONFECTIONER TOBACCONIST FANCY GOODS'. The windows and doorway are margined, and the ground floor window openings are chamfered.

No 151 is a two-storey terraced house or weaving shed dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It has a one-bay projection to the right, set at right angles, with a moulded corbel. The building is constructed of whinstone rubble with predominantly droved red sandstone dressings. The roofline is stepped, indicating separate ownership, with three properties currently in the close, including No 153.

No 153 features graded grey slates, 12-pane timber sash and case windows on the upper storey, and 2-pane fixed light windows on the lower storey. It has a replacement door and corniced ridge stacks, with the eastern stack being later brick and the western stack made of ashlar. No 151 has some replacement windows and doors, along with some original 12-pane timber sash and case windows and one timber boarded door.

Inside, No 151 has been modernised, while the middle house has not been seen. No 153 has also been modernised.

To the south, there are ancillary structures and boundary walls. To the east is a single-storey, two-bay building made of whinstone rubble (harled to the north), with pantiles, timber 12-pane sash and case windows, and a two-leaf timber door. It has a gable stack to the south. To the west is a single-storey, three-bay former lavatory and coal store, also built of whinstone rubble. To the south is a former washhouse, which is now roofless and in severe disrepair. Further south is a former pigsty with rubble walls topped with triangular coping stones.