26, 28 Bridge Street, Penicuik

F T Pilkington, 1860. 2-storey Rogue Gothic shops and tenements with distinctive corner oriel; arranged in 4 blocks around courtyard; 2 principal blocks to Bridge Street, linked by Moorish archway; plainer blocks to rear (32-34 Bridge Street and 1-7 Park End). Squared and coursed sandstone with rock-faced dressings. Contrasting red sandstone banding to ground floor arches; contrasting column mullions with foliate capitals to bipartite windows; 1st floor windows breaking eaves in jerkin-headed dormers; overhanging eaves; long and short quoins.

W (PRINCIPAL, 22-24 BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay, formerly shop at ground. Central doorway, with later infill and replacement door. Segmental-arched windows with later timber mullions at ground in flanking bays; corbelled bipartite window at 1st floor in bay to left; round-headed bipartite at 1st floor in bay to right. S ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor to outer right. E (REAR) ELEVATION: segmental-arched doorway to centre flanked by similarly arched single windows; lean-to sheds adjoining to outer right. Single and bipartite windows at 1st floor. N ELEVATION: blank gable.

ARCHWAY: rock-faced Moorish archway with stepped top; panel inscribed "PARK END".

W (26-28 BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay with arcaded angle entrance and oriel above. Segmental-arched openings to 3-bay shop; panelled door; bipartite and single windows above. Segmental-arched bipartite window at ground to right; single window above. Substantial column with foliate capital flanked by open round arches at angle; corbelled 3-light oriel above with dog-tooth moulding and contrasting red sandstone column mullions. S ELEVATION: 2-bay with arcaded entrance to left. 2 round arches at ground; left arch infilled with single window; prominent corbelled wallhead stack above; right arch open. N ELEVATION: chamfered angle at ground to outer left; segmental-arched doorway at ground to left; single window above. E ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

S (PRINCIPAL, 32-34 BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: recessed from main block; no dormers; advanced bay to outer right. Segmental-arched bipartite windows to outer left and right; bipartite window above; irregular distribution of openings between outer bays. N and E ELEVATIONS: irregular distribution of openings.

1-7 PARK END: near L-plan. Regular arrangement of single and bipartite windows to both floors; pend and entrance stair to centre. Bracketed timber projection to re-entrant SE angle.

Original glazing pattern (plate glass upper sash over 2-pane lower sash) largely survives at 1st floor of main blocks; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to rear blocks. Purple-grey Welsh slate jerkin roofs; idiosyncratic corniced multi-flue ridge and gable stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods

INTERIORS: not seen, 1999.