Description

Circa 1790. 3-storey basement and attic, 3-bay former terraced classical house. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar. Channelled rustication at ground; 1st floor cill course. To right, pilastered doorcase containing tripartite doorway with stepped back cornice, 9-pane door, semicircular fanlight (modern timber) and etched sidelights. Pair of large pedimented canted timber dormers.

Coursed rubble 3-storey rear elevation with 2 large slate hung dormers.

Timber sash and case 12-pane windows (plate glass to dormers). Ashlar coped mutual skews (lead covered to E); broad dressed stone mutual stacks (rebuilt to W); grey slates.

INTERIOR: entrance lobby with simple enriched ceiling; arcaded screen with panelled pilasters and fanlights (compare with No 48) leads to stairhall; deep longitudinal central curving cantilevered stair, with broadening landings, fitted into rectangular space; plain square iron banisters, cast-iron tray rests at all floors. Former Dining Room with pilastered sideboard niche, painted chimneypiece. At 1st floor, former Drawing Room with dentilled cornice with swagged frieze, dado rail, grey marble columned chimneypiece; rear left room with stripped timber chimneypiece with gesso enrichments.

RAILINGS: cast-iron spearhead railings.

Statement of Interest

Similar in detail to Nos 55-57 (see separate listing). 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; Queen Street was built to take advantage of the northern views, and has survived remarkably unaltered to this day.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17576731

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]