Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, attic and basement, 4-bay terraced classical house. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; mutuled cornice at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platt oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel, flush-beaded timber door with radial rectangular fanlight in bay to left of centre at principal floor. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration at 1st floor and basement, with reeded aprons in bays at 1st floor. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (1, 1A Albany Street).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (5-7B Albany Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Slate-hung polygonally piended canted dormer to left; recessed slate-hung box dormer to right. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge stack with polished ashlar dressings; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. The building of Albany Street started in 1801. It did not form part of Reid and Sibbald's first extension of the New Town, but was incorporated into it, Abercromby Place and Heriot Row being laid out on the same axis. Considerable difficulty was encountered in clearing existing feuars from the north-western area, for which Bonnar did not prepare a feu plan until February 1815.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17571420

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)