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Latitude: 55.9591 / 55°57'32"N
Longitude: -3.1999 / 3°11'59"W
OS Eastings: 325186
OS Northings: 674653
OS Grid: NT251746
Mapcode National: GBR 8MC.BB
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.THF2
Plus Code: 9C7RXR52+J3
Entry Name: 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 97A Dundas Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 87-97A (Odd Nos) Dundas Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 13 September 1964
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 367168
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28712
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 97a Dundas Street
ID on this website: 200367168
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; projecting cills to 1st floor windows; cill course and continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door with decorative rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; 4-panel timber doors with decorative rectangular fanlights in penultimate bays to left and right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (1-12 Fettes Row).
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (79-85 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 fleur-de-lis balusters and decorative finials.
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 87-97A, odd Nos, Dundas Street, was originally Nos 23-27, odd Nos, Pitt Street.
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