2 High Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Commercial building.
2 High Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-chimney-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
- 3 and 4 storeys with upper breaking eaves. Corner block of 3 by 2 bays, extending 7 bays along High Street. Multi-use commercial building.
CHANNEL STREET (N) BLOCK: prominent polygonal corner tower with polygonal roof and overhanging eaves. 2-storey canted bay to outer right. Mock half-timbered attic storey. Squared buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. Plate glass shopfronts to ground floor. Tiled stall riser, band course at base of attic floor. Steeply-pitched slate roof, slightly bell-cast, with clay ridge tiles.
HIGH STREET BLOCK: 7 irregular bays, with corner bay and return to Overhaugh Street. Red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Ground floor of plate-glass shopfronts and channelled ashlar. Large plate glass 1st floor windows to left with continuous steel lintel, single and bipartite windows to right. Pitch-roofed barge-boarded dormers with slated cheeks. Corner block has a blind bell-cote feature and square mansard roof with iron brattishing. Purple slate roof with clay ridge tiles.
INTERIOR: access was gained to only small areas of the interiors during the resurvey (2005).
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