Description

1786-92. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay classical tenement with shops at ground on corner site. Droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished long and short quoins. Ground floor built out as 2 shops, incorporating half-raised basement; at centre panelled door to upper floors with consoled segmental pediment and festoon in frieze, above large plate glass fanlight, built en suite with shop to left; modern glazed canopy, canted at corner, to right shop. Moulded cill course at 1st floor, banded cill course at 2nd floor; eaves cornice. Pair of later 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers.

Rubble gable with 3 bays to right; shop at ground to right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows (1 with plate glass at 1st floor). Ashlar coped skews; rendered stack to S, stone to N; grey slates.

INTERIOR: converted to retail use at ground. Cavetto moulded original doorway survives in situ; straight corridor to common stair at rear; flat to each floor.

Statement of Interest

Kirkwood shows rustication at ground, with door to right. A Group with Nos 12-16 (even nos) Frederick Street as a significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806231

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]