Description

Thomas Brown, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; painted polished ashlar at principal floor. Principal floor pilastraded as shop fronts. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; corniced shop fronts; cill courses to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Architraved 1st floor windows with cornices. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber door with multi-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by 3-bay shop front to left, with glazed timber door flanked by plate glass windows, to left, 2-bay shop front with glazed timber door, infilled rectangular fanlight and plate glass window, to right; 2-bay shop front to outer right, with 4-panel timber door with glazed upper panels, rectangular fanlight, plate glass window. Regular fenestration to floors above.

E ELEVATION: coursed rubble, predominantly blank, with window centred at principal floor, small light centre at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (16 and 18 St Vincent Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and snecked rubble ridge stack, with ashlar quoins, rubble gablehead stack with ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Cumberland Street was part of the first extension of the New Town by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Thomas Brown prepared the elevation for the northern sides, 25 November 1822 and 10 September 1823, with building beginning in the latter year.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803734

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