Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with later 3rd floor addition. 4-storey and basement, 4-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; defaced cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece in penultimate bay from left, comprising 9-panel timber door, radial semicircular fanlight, flanked by window in round-arched recess to left, architraved shop windows in advanced bays to right; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement.

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

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (19 and 19A Dublin Street).

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

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

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. 21 and 21A Dublin Street were formerly 21 and 21A Duke Street. Duke Street was feued by the Magistrates in 1799. Building began in 1801. It was continued northwards by Reid and Sibbald as Dublin Street in 1802 as part of their plan for the extension of the New Town. Building began in 1803. In 1966 Duke Street was renamed Dublin Street but retained its old numbers, while the original Dublin Street was renumbered.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804898

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