Description

James Milne, designed 1824. Extensive terrace of 2-storey and basement, 3-bay townhouses in plain classical style with continuous balustraded parapet and cast-iron 1st floor balconies. Sandstone ashlar, rusticated at ground floor. Entrance platts oversailing basement area recess to street. Banded base course; banded cill course at 1st floor; corniced eaves course with balustraded parapet above. Inset doorways; timber doors with rectangular fanlights (some with geometric glazing pattern). Moulded architraved and corniced windows at 1st floor.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed squared rubble with droved ashlar rybats, lintels and cills. Regular fenestration.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern timber sash and case windows, 6- over 9-pane at 1st floor. Double-pitched roof; grey slates. Corniced ashlar ridge stacks with some octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings edging basement area recess to street; cast-iron lamp standards with large bowl shades.

INTERIOR: (selection of interiors seen 2010) classical decorative scheme characterised by decorative cornicing and large drawing rooms. Some large entrance vestibules with cornicing, stone stairs with well-detailed cast iron balustrade and timber handrail, topped by large oval cupolas with decorative plasterwork beneath. Large ground and 1st floor drawing rooms to front with elaborate cornicing, some ceiling roses and some large marble fireplaces. Cornicing continues throughout, less elaborate to upper floors. Some working window shutters. Majority of interiors subdivided to form later flats.

Statement of Interest

Well proportioned terrace of townhouses with fine architectural detailing such as corniced 1st floor windows and continuous balustraded parapet. The design is a major example of early to mid nineteenth century urban classicism in Edinburgh, forming part of the development of the land of Sir Henry Raeburn and designed by prominent architect James Milne. The terrace is an integral part of Edinburgh's New Town, which is an outstanding example of classical urban planning that was influential throughout Britain and Europe.

Henry Raeburn was born in Stockbridge and acquired the house and grounds of Deanhaugh through marriage, before adding adjacent land at St Bernard's. He occupied St Bernard's House until his death in 1823 when it was demolished to accommodate the growing residential development of the estate, making space for the eastern side of Carlton Street. The authorship of James Milne for the whole development is not certain, but the elevations for the principal streets bear the characteristic features of his designs elsewhere, such as Lynedoch place (see separate listing) where the street fronting gardens found on Ann Street are also used.

James Milne was an architect and mason working in Edinburgh between 1809 and 1834 (when he moved to Newcastle). His other works in Edinburgh also include Lynedoch Place and Saxe-Coburg Place (see separate listings). Milne was also the author of The Elements of Architecture only the 1st volume of which was published in Edinburgh in 1812.

(List description updated at re-survey 2012).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17572327

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