Description

1800. 3-storey, attic and basement, 7-bay near-symmetrical classical terraced tenement on corner site. Broached ashlar sandstone. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, and between principal and 1st floors; cornice at impost level flanking doorpiece centred at principal floor; cill course at 1st floor; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at principal and 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: recessed round-arched doorpiece centred at principal floor, with 6-panel timber door and blind semicircular fanlight, surmounted by keystone, flanked to left by advanced pilastered doorpiece with corniced lintel, 6-panel timber door and 2-pane rectangular fanlight; flanked to right by advanced pilastered former doorpiece (No 36, now closed) with corniced lintel, part-infilled with window; windows in remaining bays at principal floor, with wall-mounted shop trade sign between windows in penultimate bay from left and at outer left, comprising painted stylised spectacles; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining building, see separate listing (21 York Place).

S ELEVATION: blank rendered gable.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Pair of slate-hung rectangular dormers; slate-hung tripartite rectangular dormer to right. Modern skylights. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Feuing in York Place began in 1793, after Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrew Square to the city.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17568942

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