Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1812. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; continual cill course to 4 bays at left at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; continual 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 , with plate glass rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of round-arched doorpieces; glazed door, not used, to left, with blind semicircular fanlight, glazed door to right, with plate glass semicircular fanlight and bracketed canopy. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floor above, with cills lowered in 3 bays to right at 1st floor, blind windows in penultimate bays from left and right at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (15, 17 and 17A Nelson Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (5 and 7 Nelson Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Balcony spanning 3 bays to right at 1st floor; window guards in 3 bays to right at 2nd floor, and to all 3rd floor windows, except at penultimate bay from left. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ridge stacks, rendered gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group. A significant surviving part of Edinburgh's Second New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

Nelson Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building started in 1812.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17576235

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