Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1812. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floor windows; continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber common stair door, with blind rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; 6-panel timber door with radial rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement, with modern plate glass windows flanking 6-panel timber door and shallow plate glass rectangular fanlight at left. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (1-10 Drummond Place).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (19-23 Nelson Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stacks, broached ashlar gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings, with spear-headed balusters and urn finials. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamps with glass globes.

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.

Nelson Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1812.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17576250

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