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10.4.33 The listed building is located on the north side of Kirkgate diagonally opposite Old Alloa Kirk.
Views from the listed building towards the proposed wind energy development are obscured by
modern development on the south side of Kirkgate.
10.4.34 The proposed wind energy development would have no physical impact on the listed building
and a negligible impact on its setting. The effect of the proposed wind energy development on
the listed building would be neutral.
10.4.35 Kilncraigs Despatch Warehouse, Greenside Street (HB number 49975) was built in 1936 but
contains fabric dating from 1924 fabric in the basement and ground floors and a later link. The
building is of 6-storeys with a basement. The structure is of whitewashed reinforced concrete
with a steel superstructure over coursed and snecked dressed red sandstone with dressed
margins and rusticated quoins (except to the link), and some brick at ground floor level, in the
International Modern style
10.4.36 The listed building was a despatch warehouse attached to the 1903 Office Block of 1903 (this
latter building is listed separately at Grade A HB number 20956).
10.4.37 The Kilncraigs building, Greenside Street (HB number 20956) was built in 1903 and altered
and converted to office units by LDN Architects in 2003-04.
10.4.38 The building is of four storeys with an attic. It has an L-shaped plan in the English-Baroque
style. The office building formerly included factory premises.
10.4.39 The immediate setting of this group of listed buildings is the Tesco store to their north east,
while to the north of the listed buildings the area north of Greensdie Street is used as car parks
and there are a number of modern and recently refurbished buildings. Alloa Tower, itself listed
at Grade A is clearly visible to the south east and can be seen in conjunction with the listed
buildings when looking from the north. This view, recently created through demolition of
structures associated with the listed buildings, would constitute an important part of their
setting.
10.4.40 The settlement boundary forms the limit of the setting of the listed buildings. The proposed
wind energy development would have no physical impact on the listed buildings and a
negligible impact on their setting. The effect of the proposed wind energy development on the
listed buildings would be neutral.
10.4.41 Alloa Tower (HB Number 20959) comprises a tower house dating from the 15 th century and
altered during the 16 th , 17 th and late 18 th centuries. The listed building has four-storeys and an
attic, and is of coursed rubble. There is a stepped and crenellated parapet with a parapet walk,
with corbelled rounds at angles and at the centre of the north wall. Alloa Tower is the ancestral
home of the Earls of Mar and Kellie and is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
10.4.42 Views from Alloa Tower to Clackmannan (a structure of similar date towards which views from
Alloa Tower may have been intended) would be unchanged by the proposed wind energy
development.
10.4.43 Views towards other castles in Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire to the west and north would
be unchanged by the proposed wind energy development.
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