14 High Street, Dingwall

William Cumming Joass, dated 1901. Tall, narrow, symmetrical, 2-storey commercial premesis with Edwardian-Rennaissance Dutch-gable fronting High Street and shop to ground distinguished by curved glazed corner angles. Pale and pink sandstone ashlar.

Shop: projecting double-front with recessed entrance to centre; mosaic tiles with number 14 to lobby; timber and glazed panel door with glazed fanlight over; flanking timber framed plate-glass windows, curving at outer angles. Moulded timber cornice above also rounded out at corner angles.

Large tripartite window at 1st floor with carved hood-mould to lintel; blind roundel with keystones above. Shaped gable with scrolled shoulders, surmounted by 3 urn finials.

Long range to rear (extending to S): predominantly red brick incorporating earlier rubble fabric (see Notes). Section to far S harled with later 20th century shopfront to gable end; 4 windows to 1st floor.

Timber-framed fixed-glaze windows. Grey slate. Polychromatic brick wallhead stack with octagonal clay cans to W elevation; stugged ashlar stack to N. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: some early 20th century fixtures and fittings survive to principal retail area including timber counter, shelves and drawers and staircase with timber balustrade.