Description

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to 1st floor windows; cill course and continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door with decorative rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; 4-panel timber doors with decorative rectangular fanlights in penultimate bays to left and right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (1-12 Fettes Row).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (79-85 Dundas Street).

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

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and decorative 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 87-97A, odd Nos, Dundas Street, was originally Nos 23-27, odd Nos, Pitt Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805372

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record