151 And 153 High Street, Newburgh

No 153: N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: late 18th century with additional 19th century work 2-storey 3-bay terraced house with close to left. Painted ashlar to street elevation with lettering, 'NEWSAGENT M. G. FARQUHARSON CONFECTIONER TOBACCONIST FANCY GOODS'. Narrow base course, cill course to 1st floor, moulded eaves course. Margined windows and doorway, ground floor window openings chamfered.

No 151: E (CLOSE) ELEVATION: late 18th century-early 19th century 2-storey terraced houses/weaving sheds with 1-bay projection to right set at right-angles with moulded corbel forming part of close. Whinstone rubble with predominantly droved red sandstone dressings. Properties in close stepped at roofline indicating separate owners (currently 3 including that to N which is part of No. 153).

No 153: graded grey slates, 12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper storey, 2-pane fixed light windows to lower storey. Replacement door. Corniced ridge stacks to E (later brick) and W (ashlar). No 151: some replacement windows and doors, some 12-pane timber sash and case windows, 1 timber boarded door.

INTERIOR: No 151: house to S modernised, middle house, not seen. No 153 modernised.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: (all to S). To E, single storey 2-bay building. Whinstone rubble (harled to N), pantiles, timber 12-pane sash and case windows, 2-leaf timber door. Gable stack to S. To W, single storey 3-bay former lavatory and coal store, whinstone rubble. To S, former washhouse, now roofless and severely dilapidated. To far S, former pigsty, rubble walls with triangular coping stones.