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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805436

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings