22, 22A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 22, 22A Dundas Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 22 and 22A Dundas Street, and 37 Northumberland Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 10 November 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367175

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28716

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 22, 22a Dundas Street

ID on this website: 200367175

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic, on corner site. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 2nd floor, continued as band course to S elevation; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door with blind rectangular fanlight, in penultimate bay from right at principal floor, flanked by windows, blind windows in remaining bays at principal floor. Regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in bays at outer left and penultimate bay from left, at all floors. Basement comprising window at centre, 2-bay shop front to right (No 22A, Hanover Fine Art) with timber door to left and window to right.

S (NORTHUMBERLAND STREET) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece with panelled timber door and decorative radial fanlight centred at principal floor, flanked by windows in remaining bays; regular fenestration to floors above and basement.

N ELEVATION; adjoining terrace, see separate listing (24-28 Dundas Street)

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (39 and 41 Northumberland Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar shouldered wallhead stacks, centred at N and S elevations, rubble gablehead stack with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by 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. Dundas Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807.

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