Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey, attic and basement 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; modillioned cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door with glazed upper panels, plate glass rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of round-arched doorpieces with 9-panel timber doors, plate glass semicircular fanlights; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above.

N ELEVATION: random rubble gable.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (32-38 Dublin Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar stacks breaking pitch, rendered gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

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. 40-46 Dublin Street was formerly 18-22A Dublin Street. Duke Street, to the south, was begun

in 1801, and was continued as Dublin Street in 1803 as part of Reid and Sibbald's plans for the extension of the New Town. 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 Q17805012

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