Number 2

James Pearson Alison, dated 1891. L-plan, gabled, Scots Renaissance former stables and dairy (now converted to housing) on sloping corner site, with conical-roofed tower to entrance at right end of single-storey and attic principal (Elm Grove) elevation and 2 single-storey blocks linked by wall to Orchard Terrace elevation. Roughly squared, tooled yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; some render to courtyard elevation. Chamfered margins to street elevations; raised cills to courtyard elevation; stone-finialled gabled dormers.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Irregularly fenestrated principal (Elm Grove) elevation: door to star-finialled, gabled left bay; 2 dormers to central section; bipartite window at ground floor and corniced, single-light upper window with semicircular pediment (see NOTES) to ball-finialled, gabled right bay; 3 stone steps to entrance to outer right, with shouldered arch linking corner pillar to conical-roofed, finialled tower with open pedimented window. W elevation of Elm Grove block: corner steps and pillar to left; gabled bay to right, with single lights to canted, corbelled corners, central plaque (see NOTES), slit window at attic, and gablehead stack. Orchard Terrace elevation: roughly 3-bay left block with dormers flanking central door within corniced and segmented pedimented architrave breaking eaves; shoulder-height wall linking left and right blocks with cope rising to meet eaves at each end; irregular fenestration to right block, with 2 dormers. Irregular fenestration to courtyard elevation.

Non-traditional windows (see NOTES). Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Predominantly ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. Corniced ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans.