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42, 44, 46 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9585 / 55°57'30"N

Longitude: -3.2014 / 3°12'4"W

OS Eastings: 325090

OS Northings: 674598

OS Grid: NT250745

Mapcode National: GBR 8MC.0J

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.SHQG

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ5X+CC

Entry Name: 42, 44, 46 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 36-62B (Even Nos) Cumberland Streetand 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 7 a and 8 North West Cumberland Street Lane, Including Railings

Listing Date: 10 November 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 366858

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28614

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 42, 44, 46 Cumberland Street

ID on this website: 200366858

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Thomas Brown, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 43-bay terraced tenement, Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Architraved 1st floor windows with cornices. Band course between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floor; cill course at 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpieces with 6-panel timber doors and radial semicircular fanlights in bays from right 3rd, 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 21st, and from left 3rd, 6th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 18th and 21st. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement.

E ELEVATION: coursed rubble; windows centred to all floors, except basement, with window to left of centre, small light to right of centre.

W ELEVATION: predominantly blank; window centred at principal floor, windows flanking centre at basement, corniced and pilastered doorpiece to outer left at basement, altered, with steps removed to lower height of door and fanlight.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble and rendered ridge stacks with broached quoins, rubble gablehead stacks with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans. Ashlar skew copes.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Cumberland Street was part of the first extension of the New Town by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Thomas Brown prepared the elevations for the northern sides, 25 November 1822 and 10 September 1823, with building beginning in the latter year.

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