Description

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822, with later additions. Predominantly 4-storey and basement, 13-bay classical terrace, comprising 5-bay linking terrace, flanked by pair of 4-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at principal floor of terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor, and at 2nd floor of linking block to bays at left of centre. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACE: 5-bay linking terrace (No 2), with additional storey at 3 bays to right, comprising 4-panel timber door with plate glass rectangular fanlight centred at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor; architraved windows at 2nd and 3rd floors. Flagged basement area.

NW ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of 4-bay terminal pavilions. Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floor. 4-panel timber door with radial semicircular fanlights, blind at No 2, in bays 4th from outer left and right. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor, blind at 3rd bay from outer left at No 2 and bay to outer right at No 6; regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in centre bays at No 2 and in bay to outer right at No 6. Flagged basement area.

AINSLIE PLACE RETURN TO W TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 25 Ainslie Place (see separate listing).

MORAY PLACE RETURN TO E TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay, becoming 37 Moray Place (see separate listing).

REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Variety of timber sash and case windows, including 6-light small pane bow window to outer right at 3rd floor of No 4. Anthemion and palmette window guards in bays at 1st floor, except at No 2, bays to left at No 4 and bay at outer right at No 6. Grey slate M-roofs. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Variety of broached and rendered ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. The Moray Estate was designed for the 10th Earl of Moray (1771-1848). He inherited the 13 acre site from his father, after it was acquired from the Heriot Trust in 1782, and decided to feu the property for development in 1822. The complicated plan, with the crescent, oval and polygon of Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place and Moray Place respectively, all linked by Great Stuart Street, conjoins the New town with the second New Town. Building was completed in 1830-31.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569987

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