Description

CHAPEL ROW
(South side)

Nos.1, 2 AND 3
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAPEL ROW
Nos.1-9 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV II

Three stepped terrace houses. c1734, with C19 alterations. By John Wood the Elder.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs.
PLAN: Town houses with deep mansard roof, and entrance to No.1 in Princes Street.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, all sash windows, in moulded architraves at second and first floors, and floating cornices at first floor. No.1 has paired sash dormers above paired plain sashes at each of three floors, with net balconette at first floor, and pavement grille to sixteen-pane basement window. Return, left, painted ashlar, with three blind lights at each level, far left panelled door with side-lights in pedimented doorcase on unfluted palmette half-columns. No.2 has paired casement dormer above three plain sashes at each level, at first floor with separate bowed balconettes, and two sixteen-pane sashes to basement, with grilles. To left six-panel door with two-pane transom light, with architrave. No.3 retains glazing-bar sashes, with paired twelve-pane dormer above twelve-pane with separate balconettes and twelve-pane, with sixteen-pane to basement windows with grilles. To left eight-panel door on two steps, in architrave. Plinth, platband above ground floor, `CHAPEL ROW¿ and `PRINCES STREET¿ incised in Roman lettering, cornice with shallow blocking course and parapet, all returned also to Princes Street. To right of each is rubble stack to coped party division in Nos 1 and 3. Rear, four full storeys, not generally accessible, but in squared rubble with flush ashlar dressings to openings, some with straight drip courses. No.1 has full height canted bay with plain sashes, some blind.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Part of a relatively low-status row designed by Wood the Elder as part of the western extension of the city. The houses were first rated in 1734. Unlike remainder of terrace, this group of three, which is stepped slightly above next group, has retained domestic fenestration at ground floor. Street name derives from chapel built by Wood nearby, off Queen Square, in 1732, and demolished in 1875.

Listing NGR: ST7475564924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674475

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