Description

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822. 4-storey and basement, 23-bay symmetrical classical palace block with 3-part in-canted frontage, comprising advanced 9-bay central pavilion, flanked by pair of 3-bay houses flanked in turn by splayed pair of 4-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at central and terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st floor; cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, CENTRAL PAVILION: advanced 9-bay central pavilion, with central 3 bays and outer bays advanced again. Central 3 bays and outer bays flanked by engaged Doric columns at 1st and 2nd floors; central 3 bays surmounted by blank pediment. 4-panel timber door with plate glass semicircular fanlight in bay to right of centre, 4-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights in bays at outer left and right; windows in round-arched recesses in bay at centre and left of centre; regular fenestration to remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above, with blank bay centred at 3rd floor. Flagged basement area.

NE ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACES: pair of 3-bay houses (Nos 38 and 42), comprising 4-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights, in bays flanking central pavilion; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Windows architraved with cornices at 1st floor; windows architraved at 2nd floor. No 42 raised to 4-storey. Flagged basement area.

NE ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of advanced 4-bay terminal pavilions; Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floor. 4-panel timber doors in penultimate bays from left; door at No 37 with plate glass semicircular fanlight, door at No 43 with radial semicircular fanlight. Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement area.

GREAT STUART STREET RETURN TO N TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming No 2 Great Stuart Street (see separate listing).

FORRES STREET RETURN TO S TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming 10 Forres Street (see separate listing).

Variety of timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roofs. Pair of slate-hung box dormers to No 38. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Anthemion and palmette window guards in bays at 1st floor. Variety of ridge and wallhead stacks; coped with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

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. The Moray Estate was designed for the 10th Earl of Moray (1771-1848). He inherited the 13 acre site from his father, after it was acquired from the Heriot Trust in 1782, and decided to feu the property for development in 1822. The complicated plan, with the crescent, oval and polygon of Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place and Moray Place respectively, conjoins the New Town with the Second New Town. Building was completed in 1830-31.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17576156

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