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Latitude: 55.9991 / 55°59'56"N
Longitude: -3.7213 / 3°43'16"W
OS Eastings: 292747
OS Northings: 679795
OS Grid: NS927797
Mapcode National: GBR 1M.V3YW
Mapcode Global: WH5R0.TG5W
Entry Name: Bowhouse,circular enclosure,Polmont
Scheduled Date: 8 March 1962
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2207
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Grangemouth
County: Falkirk
Electoral Ward: Grangemouth
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
James K Hunter, 1903. 2-storey, 2-bay, terrace of gabled cottages. Painted harl. Advanced cat-slide roofed, paired entrance porches; low boundary walls; supporting columns; timber eaves; decorative rainwater openings linking gables at eaves.
NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: glazed timber door to entrance porch of No 21; altered bay to left, forms glazed timber door shop entrance; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor. Glazed timber door and tripartite window at ground to No 23; bipartite window at 1st floor. Altered ground floor to No 25 comprises infilled entrance porch of timber door, split letterbox fanlight and single window to left; bipartite and single window to left advanced, canted return; bipartite window at 1st floor. Timber glazed door to No 27 to left; tripartite window at ground floor to right; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor. Altered shopfront to No 29 comprises glazed timber door to right; shop windows to left; bipartite window at 1st floor. Altered ground floor bay to No 31 comprises timber door to left and single window, tripartite window to right; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor.
SW AND NE ELEVATIONS: gabled; blank.
SE ELEVATION: not seen 1999.
Predominantly 8-pane timber sash and case windows; some modern glazing. Rosemary tiled roof; stone skews rooflights; coped ridge and gablehead stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIORS: not seen 1999.
RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: predominantly iron railings atop low coped boundary wall enclosing entrance elevation.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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