Description

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to bays at 1st floor; cill course at 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door in 4th bay from right at principal floor, with glazed upper panels, and decorative rectangular fanlight; 9-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights in 3rd bays from left and right. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor, and to floors above and basement.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (87-97A Dundas Street).

S CUMBERLAND STREET ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable;predominantly single bay, becoming 34B Cumberland Street, 4-bay basement comprising 6-panel, flush-beaded timber door with 3-pane rectangular fanlight in penultimate bay from left; regular fenestration to remaining bays; windows centred at first floors above.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble, regular fenestration.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; window guards in bays to left and 3rd from left at 1st floor, and in 3 bays to left at 3rd floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge and gablehead stacks, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and St George's cross 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. Dundas Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807. Nos 53-97, odd Nos, and 56-102, even Nos (formerly Pitt Street) formed part of the same plan, but building did not start in Pitt Street until 1820. Nos 79-85 Dundas Street was formerly 17-21 Pitt Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805356

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments