Description

Late 18th century. 3-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced classical house. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze between principal and 1st floors; cill course at 2nd floor; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platt oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorway in bay to left at principal floor, comprising 2-leaf 4-panel timber door surmounted by radial semicircular fanlight; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement, architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (8 and 8A York Place).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (12 and 12A York Place).

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Piended dormer to right. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998. Shallow ribbed vaults to rooms at front, gothic details to rooms at rear.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Feuing in York Place began in 1793, after Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrew Square to the city. The interior may have been refitted by Admiral Sir David Milne for Lord Craig, for whom No 10 was built.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569218

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)