42 - 50 Grainger Street (Victoria Buildings)

Shops and offices. Dated 1874; by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. Some
ground floor alterations c.1980. Sandstone ashlar; dark slate roof. Italianate
style. 3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Rusticated piers to ground floor, that at
centre right altered; central renewed office door; bracketed cornice. Pilasters
to upper floors, fluted in end bays, are Tuscan Order on first floor, framing
arched windows with shell-carved tympana; similar carving to paired central second
floor windows under round arch with lozenge ornament in tympanum ; plainer windows
in other bays, between wide pilasters with brackets to top cornice. End and
central attics of one and 3 lights have garland-ornamented pilasters under open
pediments; linking balustrades with urn finials. LISTED GRADE 2