Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1801-4. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; polished ashlar at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor windows; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel timber common stair door with radial rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; round-arched doorpiece in 3rd bay from left, comprising 6-panel timber door with radial semicircular fanlight; regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above; corniced shop front at basement with glazed timber doors and plate glass windows.

N (CUMBERLAND STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay, coursed rubble gable with corniced basement, comprising 5-bay public house (The Cumberland Bar) at right with glazed door and multi-pane windows; 3-bay continuation of principal elevation basement shop front, at left, with plate glass windows, and infilled window to right. Regular fenestration to floors above, with bipartite windows centred at principal and 1st floors; blind windows to left and right at all floors.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble rear elevation, with regular fenestration to all floors.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (16-20 Drummond Place).

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

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters. Cumberland Bar refitted circa 1990, CAMRA interior award winner.

RAILINGS AND LAMP: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and quasi-Maltese cross and pineapple finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17568933

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings