Please note all dates are approximate.
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The building (Numbers 74-78 and the Corner House Hotel), is a Category B Listed Building. Category B means it is of regional importance.
The listing says 'it is a 3 storey renaissance-detailed corner block with shops and hotel. Elaborately detailed S elevation to High Street with sculptured ornament at top floor and a recessed circular turret. The polished ashlar (dressed stone) elevation has 2 bays with tripartites, balconies to upper floor on columns supported on stone corbels and elaborate pedimented heads raised above eaves level. Further narrow left bay with oculus (circular window) at second floor. Turret at the angle with Lady Street has columned mullions and slated dome'.
The listing says 'it is a 3 storey renaissance-detailed corner block with shops and hotel. Elaborately detailed S elevation to High Street with sculptured ornament at top floor and a recessed circular turret. The polished ashlar (dressed stone) elevation has 2 bays with tripartites, balconies to upper floor on columns supported on stone corbels and elaborate pedimented heads raised above eaves level. Further narrow left bay with oculus (circular window) at second floor. Turret at the angle with Lady Street has columned mullions and slated dome'.
This photo from the 1930's shows most of those features.
c1885 Wilson Bros, grocer
Plans for the present building are dated May 1899. The Wilson Brothers had this site redeveloped with a number of shops on the High Street and along Lady Street with a Temperance Hotel above.
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| 1902 D Watt Directory |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer |
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| 1908 Annandale Observer |
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| 1911 Annandale Observer |
1917 Robert Semple, grocer
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| 1925 RoM |
1941 Café and Temperance Hotel
Mystery - When was the entrance to the Hotel moved from Lady Street to the Corner and the name changed to Corner House Hotel??
1984 Stephen Rowe, optician
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| 1990 RoM |
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| 1995 RoM |
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| 1998 RoM |
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| 2001 RoM |
2014 Conlon & Sons, optician
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| from website: find a store near me |
In 2014 Vision Express acquired both Conlon & Sons and Rayner & Keeler, opticians (Stephen Rowe was part of Rayner & Keeler)
2016 Vision Express
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| 2017 RoM |
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