Description

1810. 3-storey and basement, 6-bay terrace, formerly pair of 3-bay classical houses. Polished ashlar sandstone; broached ashlar at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Bracketed projecting cills at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor. Polished ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced paired doorpieces to centre bays, comprising engaged fluted Doric columns flanking 6-panel timber doors with rectilinear-pattern rectangular fanlights, linked by continuous entablature with wreath-ornamented frieze and cornice. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Public house at basement (The Basement). Flagged basement area.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; coupled giant order Ionic pilasters flanking centre bay at 1st and 2nd floors. Blind windows except to right at 1st and 2nd floors. Paired stacks surmounting centre bay and linked by coped parapet.

NW ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (14-22A Broughton Street).

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead stacks; corniced, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998; evidence of working panelled shutters.

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

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. A good example of pre-Reid and Sibbald New Town housing. The south east elevation with its giant pilasters almost becomes obscured by the later St Paul's and St George's Church.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17572223

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version