4, 6, 8, 8B St Vincent Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 4, 6, 8, 8B St Vincent Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 4-8B (Even Nos) St Vincent Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 370137

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29750

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200370137

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Tenement

Description

David Paton, 1821. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floor; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece centred at principal floor, comprising 4-panel common stair door with blind stone semicircular fanlight. Round-arched doorpieces in bay 3rd from outer left and outer right, comprising 4-panel timber doors, radial semicircular fanlight to left, plate glass semicircular fanlight to right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. 3-bay pilastered shop front to outer left at basement (No 8B); panelled door with plate glass rectangular fanlight, flanked by plate glass windows. Remainder of basement 2-bay, with 12-pane timber sash and case windows and glazed doors, including segmental-arched multi-pane fanlights to doors at centre. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (10-14 St Vincent Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (44-86 Great King Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stack, rendered ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple 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.

St Vincent Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. It was largely built by Pringle and Edgar. Building started in 1821. It was curtailed by the building of St Stephen's Church in 1827-8, when the plan was revised to provide for 2 quadrants sweeping into St Stephens Street and Fettes Row.

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