Description

Earlier 19th century, reworked and extended, R T Currie, 1907 (as former St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School) with later alterations (2001). 2-storey with attic and basement, pair of 3-bay classical houses at end of terrace in Albany Street. Broached ashlar sandstone; channelled V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice at 1st floor of E elevation; cornice and blocking course at 1st floor.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: steps over-sailing basement to round-arched doorpieces (reinstated 2001) with decorative fanlights. Regular fenestration with cills raised at 1st floor. Flagged basement area. Pairs of canted attic dormers (2001).

E (YORK LANE) ELEVATION: 1907 (alterations, 2001). 12-bay entrance elevation, on falling ground, with stepped corner to outer right. Architraved and corniced doorpiece (masonry in-fill) including panelled lintel and brackets, surmounted by 6-pane window. 3-pane window to right with semicircular fanlight (infilled door with chamfered margins). Regularly spaced windows in 5 bays at centre; barred square windows below cills. Vehicular pend addition (2001) to left with truncated wall-head stack above. Regular fenestration at 1st floor. Box dormers.

Predominantly 9-pane timber windows. Slate-hung 6-pane rectangular dormers at E elevation. Grey slate roofs. Coped skews. Variety of stacks; coped, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

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.

35, 37 Albany Street are a pair of fine, early 19th century, classical town houses wich were latered and extended at 2, 3 And 4 York Lane to form a primary school (1907, including conversion of the principal doors to windows) and converted back to residences in 2001 with doorways and oversailing stairs to principal elevation reinstated.

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

Change of statutory address from 35, 37 Albany Street and 3 York Lane, Including Railings to 35, 37 Albany Street and 2, 3 and 4 York Lane, Including Railings also list description updated, 2013.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792354

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