15, 17, 17A Nelson Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 15, 17, 17A Nelson Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 15, 17 and 17A Nelson Street, and 6-7A Northumberland Place, Including Railings and Lamps

Listing Date: 22 September 1965

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 369207

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29386

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 15, 17, 17a Nelson Street

ID on this website: 200369207

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1812. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; continual cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; continual cornice at 2nd floor, returned and terminated at corner; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces in central bay and penultimate bay from right at principal floor, comprising 6-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: 4-storey and basement, 5-bay elevation becoming 6-7A Northumberland Place. Regular fenestration to all floors, blind windows in penultimate bay from right and bay to outer right at principal, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 6-bay at basement, with panelled timber doors in penultimate bays from left and right, flanked by windows. Flagged basement area.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Window guards to all 3rd floor windows in W elevation, except in penultimate bay from right, and to 3 bays to left at 3rd floor of N elevation. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar shouldered gablehead stack centred at W elevation, rendered shouldered gablehead stack centred at N elevation; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

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.

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

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