10, 12, 14 St Vincent Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 10, 12, 14 St Vincent Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 10-14 (Even Nos) St Vincent Street, and 81 Cumberland Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 370138

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29751

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200370138

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century; principal elevation details reinstated by Christopher Dinnis Associates, 1995, N elevation refaced and realigned by Christopher Dinnis Associates, 1997. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; channelled rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; blank aprons in bays at 1st floor; cill course at 3rd floor; projecting cills in bays to left and right at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Architraved windows in central 3 bays at 1st floor, with cornices, and architraved to those above at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door centred at principal floor, flanked by 4-panel timber doors, all with plate glass rectangular fanlights. Regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor, and to floors above and basement.

N (CUMBERLAND STREET) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to all floors, with blind windows to outer right and penultimate bay from right at all floors.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (4-8B St Vincent Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Polished ashlar ridge stacks, shouldered wallhead stack, rubble wallhead stack with polished ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis 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. St Vincent Street was part of the first extension of the New Town, planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802, it was 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 Stephen Street and Fettes Row. Nos 10-14 St Vincent Street was refaced due to the failure of the structural integrity of the stone, of a lesser quality than that used for neighbouring buildings. There was also some previous subsidence, which resulted in the N elevation being realigned to match the levels of the reinstated principal elevation.

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