284 High Street

John Walker Smart, dated 1907. Single-storey, 5-bay, commercial offices and workshop for W D Peddie Iron and Steel Merchants occupying prominent corner site with canted entrance bay and unusual L-plan chimney stack with cast-iron ornamental railing detail to corner angle. Red sandstone ashlar with moulded dressings. Base course, moulded cornice and coped parapet.

CORNER OFFICE: Recessed timber panel door to canted corner bay; date panel and round-arched pediment above. Flanked by pair of quatrepartite basket-arched windows with stone mullions, high-set transoms and leaded upper-lights.

FLANKING WORKSHOP SECTIONS: 4-bay to High Street with timber astragals to upper part of large plate glass windows; dentils to upper frames. Plain pilasters divide bays rising to swept-blocking between bays at parapet.

Grey slate. L-plan chimney stack with cast-iron ornamental railing detail to corner angle.

INTERIOR: principal office area with timber panelling and partitioning with panelled door, fireplace and fitted units. Mosaic floor tiles; flower motif plaster cornicing. Timber panelling to toilet to left of office. Polished grey brick walls with red sandstone dressings to workshops. Cast-iron spiral staircase with barley-twist balustrades. Signage. Cobbled set floor with machine tracks to centre flanked by recessed inspection pits.