Description

Alexander Black, mid 19th century. 4-storey, 13-bay terraced tenement, 15-bay at ground floor. Broached ashlar sandstone; polished ashlar at ground floor. Band course between ground and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd and 3rd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor, stepped up between Nos 35 and 37.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber doors with pate glass rectangular fanlights in bays 4th from left, and 3rd, 4th and 6th from right. Windows in remaining bays at ground floor; regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in bay 4th from left at 1st floor and floors above. Modern rendered and coped gate pier to right.

E ELEVATION: adjoining building, see separate listing (Glasite Meeting House, 33 Barony Street).

W ELEVATION: squared and snecked rubble gable; infilled window to outer right at ground floor, pairs of infilled windows to outer left and right at 1st floor and floors above.

REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M roof. cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and coped ridge stacks, broached ashlar corniced gablehead stacks, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. Feus were offered for the Heriot Trust in 1821, under John Milne. Thomas Bonnar began the street in 1829, Alexander Black continuing after Bonnar's death in 1847.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774120

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)