19, 19A Dublin Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 19, 19A Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 19 and 19A Dublin Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 24 May 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367118

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28682

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 19, 19a Dublin Street

ID on this website: 200367118

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 3-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered doorpiece in bay to left at principal floor with Roman Doric columns supporting entablature, comprising 6-panel timber door with radial rectangular fanlight; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above and to basement.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21 and 21A Dublin Street).

S ELEVATION: squared and snecked rubble gable, comprising pilastered doorpiece with cornice, centred at principal floor. Windows centred at floors above.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, with polygonal piended dormer to right. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble gablehead stacks with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters.

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. 19 and 19A Dublin Street were formerly 19 and 19A Duke Street. Duke Street was feued by the Magistrates in 1799. Building began in 1801. It was continued northwards by Reid and Sibbald as Dublin Street in 1802 as part of their plan for the extension of the New Town. Building began in 1803. In 1966 Duke Street was renamed Dublin Street but retained its old numbers, while the original Dublin Street was renumbered.

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