Description

After 1792. Symmetrical 3-storey basement and attic 7-bay former pair of classical houses with flats above on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar (cleaned) with polished dressings. V-jointed rustication at ground; long and short quoins; eaves cornice. Former common stair door at centre, blocked to form window; panelled doors to flanking bays with modern rectangular fanlights. 3 flat-roofed dormers; off-centre bipartite flanked by pair of tripartites. Coursed rubble gable with windows at centre.

4-bay 4-storey dressed rubble rear elevation with 3-storey closet tower at centre and single storey and basement stugged ashlar corniced extension in Rose Street; latter mostly bar, with tripartite entrance.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; rebuilt ashlar stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: common stair removed; both flats incorporated in No 16. Modern glazed screen in Hall; curving cantilevered stone stair with alternate decorative cast-iron banisters; lift installed. Former Dining and Drawing Rooms with panelled dados, and plain painted chimneypieces. S flat with attic stair with similar banisters. N flat with stair removed, rear room with tripartite window with fluted pilasters; painted and carved chimneypiece also with fluted pilasters. No 20 with enriched ceiling to entrance Hall; glazed archway with fanlight; former Dining Room with panelled dado, grey marble chimneypiece; similar chimneypiece to rear room; former Drawing Room with panelled dado, grey marble chimneypiece and scrolled foliate frieze; rear room with black fossil marble chimneypiece. Extension to rear at ground and basement with office cloakrooms, and bar in Rose Street.

Statement of Interest

Part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. A Group with Nos 10-14 (even nos) Castle Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17567450

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings