25 High Street

James Pearson Alison, 1898. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay, symmetrical tenement and shops forming part of terrace, with bipartite windows and inscribed escutcheon (see NOTES) flanked by Dutch-inspired, consoled, pedimented dormers breaking eaves. Squared, snecked yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to front; predominantly brick to rear. Consoled, corniced fascia to left shopfront; 1st-floor string course; dentilled 2nd-floor cornice; eaves cornice. Roll-moulded window margins; bipartite, stone-mullioned windows at 1st and 2nd floors, with projecting cills and conch details above at 1st floor, and corbelled projecting cills and label-stopped hoodmoulds at 2nd floor. Projecting, piend-roofed, central stair bay to rear, flanked by piend-roofed dormers

Some 3-pane and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with stone ridge; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar end stacks with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Mosaic lobby floor now concealed within left shop; stone tenement stair with decorative cast-iron balusters, polished timber handrail, and timber-boarded doors with tall 2-pane fanlights to 2 closets on left and right of each landing (see NOTES).