Description

Reiach, Hall & Partners, 1969 replica. 4-storey attic and basement classical corner block. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; long and short quoins at corner. Corniced architraved doorpieces to North St David Street (plate glass fanlight) and No 3 (3-pane fanlight); steps and platts oversailing basement area.

E (NORTH ST DAVID STREET) ELEVATION: 3 bays, with door at centre, displaced to left; attic window in gablehead above centre bay; gable abutts projecting modern block to S.

N (QUEEN STREET) ELEVATION: cornice and blocking course. No 2 with

5 symmetrical bays; pilastered doorpiece at centre with plate glass fanlight; set back link with downpipes. No 3 with 5 bays, door at centre; 3 right bays displaced to right.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows. Grey slates; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar stacks.

INTERIOR: modern open plan offices.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: cast-iron spearhead railings; wrought-iron lamps to North St David St and No 3.

Statement of Interest

The original building had become unsafe, so was rebuilt replicating the later top storey at No 3 and adding corresponding storey to No 2 (formerly a nepus gable). Listed for its value within the A Group with 4-16 (inclusive nos) Queen Street as part of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain; Queen Street was built to take advantage of the northern views, and has survived remarkably unaltered to this day.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632127

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)