Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced classical house. Polished ashlar sandstone. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floor; projecting cills at principal and 1st floor; cornice and blocking course. Ashlar steps and entrance platt oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber door with plate glass semicircular fanlight in bay to right at principal floor; regular fenestration in remaining bays at principal floor, and to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

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

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11-19 Albany Street).

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Slate-hung piended box dormer to right; slate-hung tripartite rectangular piended dormer to left. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

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

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. 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 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 Q17571430

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014