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Latitude: 55.9563 / 55°57'22"N
Longitude: -3.1984 / 3°11'54"W
OS Eastings: 325273
OS Northings: 674345
OS Grid: NT252743
Mapcode National: GBR 8MD.MB
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VK45
Plus Code: 9C7RXR42+GM
Entry Name: 3 Dundas Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 3-7 (Odd Nos) Dundas Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 18 August 1964
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367153
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28702
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 3 Dundas Street
ID on this website: 200367153
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with late Victorian additions. 4-storey and basement, 7-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 and 1st floors; projecting cills at 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor; string course and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance plats oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel flush-beaded timber common stair door, with rectilinear rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; slightly advanced pilastered doorpiece in 3rd bay from left, with single fluted pilaster with Corinthian capital surviving, comprising 4-panel timber door and plate glass rectangular fanlight; 3-bay pilastered and corniced shop front (No 7A, P Clark Thomson & Son) advanced to outer left, with glazed doors and plate glass windows; pair of doors in 3rd bay from right, both 6-panel with plate glass rectangular fanlights; 2-bay shop front to right, comprising recessed glazed door with rectilinear rectangular fanlight, 2-pane plate glass window to left; regular fenestration to floors above. Regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement, with 2-bay shop front to right, with glazed door and plate glass window.
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21-34 Abercromby Place).
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (9-13C Dundas Street).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters.
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. Dundas Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807.
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