42-46 Court Street (Haddington)

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The building in March 2011

A commercial building is located at 42-46 Court Street in the Scottish town of Haddington in the East Lothian Council Area . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish List of Monuments in the highest category A.

description

The building is set back from Court Street , the city's main street, in the center of Haddington, not far from City Hall . It was completed in 1803 after a year of construction for the builder Henry Davidson . The Scottish architect James Burn may have been involved in the design. Today it is used as a commercial building by the Bank of Scotland .

The corpus of the two-story classicist building is three axes wide and is flanked by short, one-story pavilions. The middle segment with the entrance area emerges slightly. The entrance is made as a round arch portal with a window for the fighters . Flanking pilasters are crowned with cornices . The flanking windows are embedded in arched openings with a blind spar. Stone window pillars, stylistically adapted to the pilasters in the entrance area, structure them so that triplet windows are created. The building closes with a slate hipped roof . The eaves are designed with a sphinx sculpture and urns on the building edges. To the west is a two-storey extension, whose facades, unlike the main building, are plastered with Harl .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

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Coordinates: 55 ° 57 '20.7 "  N , 2 ° 46" 52.7 "  W.