53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 Dundas Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 53-65 (Odd Nos) Dundas Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 13 September 1964

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367163

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28709

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 Dundas Street

ID on this website: 200367163

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber common stair door centred at principal floor, with blind rectangular fanlight; 6-panel timber door with diamond-paned rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from left; 4-bay former Royal Bank of Scotland (No 53, Braemore Property Management) to right at principal floor, with flat-roofed corniced porch advanced in bay to outer right at principal floor, comprising recessed round-arched doorpiece, with panelled timber door and radial semicircular fanlight. Basement shop to outer left (No 65, Unicorn Antiques), with 5-pane plate glass window, and recessed glazed door.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (67-77 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (2-42A Great King Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge and gablehead stacks; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with balusters and 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. Dundas Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807. Nos 53-97, odd Nos, and 56-102, even Nos (formerly Pitt Street) formed part of the same plan, but building did not start in Pitt Street until 1820. Nos 53-65 Dundas Street was formerly 3A-9A Pitt Street.

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