Sites and Monument Record: Philpingstone Rd; 51-75 (odd) (SMR 1004)
Description
Demolished 1982.
Two terraces of paired flatted cottages with prominent curly baroque cement pediments over the double front doors, bullseye windows and swept dormers to a design by WL Dick-Peddie. They were two-storey with an attic, finished in harled rubble with dressed margins. Slated roofs with tiled ridge. Datestone of 1895 at No 75.
Each pair had bipartite windows and two paired centre doors under consoled, curvilinear, cement hoods at ground floor; two bipartites and two centre bullseye windows at first floor; two tripartite swept dormers. The upper flats were reached by external stairs at the rear.
There was an original shop front and a canted window on the corner at no 51 (Dean of Guild application dated 1895).
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Object detail
Latterly owned by Falkirk District Council who in 1980 applied to demolish them. This was refused by the Scottish Development Department, that had just listed them. At a Public Enquiry the Reporter recommended refusal, but the decision was overturned by the Secretary of State for Scotland on the mistaken belief that the structures had been empty for so long that they had deteriorated beyond repair.
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