Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; painted polished ashlar at basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; modillioned cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door with upper panels glazed, 6-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; advanced 4-bay pedimented shop front to left at principal floor, corniced with bracketed pediment above fascia, surmounted by cast-iron parapet, comprising recessed glazed timber doors at centre, with geometric rectangular fanlights, flanked by plate glass windows with rounded angles, glazed S return; round-arched doorpiece in 3rd bay from right at principal floor, comprising 4-panel timber door with radial semicircular fanlight. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, with anthemion and palmette window guards in 3 bays to left at 2nd floor.

N ELEVATION: coursed rubble gable, predominantly blank; pilastered doorpiece with consoled cornice, centred at ground, 3 lights to left of centre at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (51-59 Dublin Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof; 4 regularly spaced rectangular dormers. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble gablehead stack, with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railing with spear-headed balusters and urn 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. 48-60 Dublin Street was formerly 24-28A Dublin Street. Duke Street, to the south, was begun in 1801, and was continued northwards as Dublin Street in 1803 as part of Reid and Sibbald's plans for the extension of the New Town. In 1966 Duke Street was renamed as Dublin Street but retained its old numbers, while the original Dublin Street was renumbered.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805024

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