23-24 The Square, Penicuik is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Town house.

23-24 The Square, Penicuik

WRENN ID
graven-mantel-dawn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 2000
Type
Town house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey, 3-bay near-symmetrical town house with pilastraded shopfront at ground. Tooled sandstone ashlar, painted at ground, with polished dressings. Raised margins. Base course; corniced lintel at ground; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; eaves course.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 7-bay pilastrade at ground, 5-bay shopfront to left, with modern door at centre, flanked by pairs of 2-pane plate glass windows in flanking bays; blank bay to penultimate right; pend entrance in bay to outer right, with modern decorative wrought-iron gate. Regular fenestration to bays at 1st and 2nd floors.

NW ELEVATION: adjoining building.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: bowed stair tower engaged to left of centre with window between 1st and 2nd floors.

SE ELEVATION: adjoining building.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1999.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, with lead ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and lined gablehead stacks, splayed to left; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews; decorative skewputts with panelled obelisks to principal elevation.

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