Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced classical house. Polished ashlar sandstone; broached ashlar sandstone at basement. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; cill course at principal and 1st floors; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platt oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece in bay to left at principal floor, with 9-panel timber door and plate glass rectangular fanlight. Architraved and corniced windows in remaining bays at principal floor; architraved windows in bays at 1st floor. Regular fenestration at basement. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21-23A Albany Street).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (27-33 Albany Street).

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Polygonally piended dormer to right. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

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

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. The building of Albany Street started in 1801. It did not form part of Reid and Sibbald's first extension of the New Town, but was incorporated into it, Abercromby Place and Heriot Row being laid out on the same axis. Considerable difficulty was encountered in clearing the feuars from the north-western area, for which Bonnar did not prepare a feu plan until February 1815.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17571454

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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)