Description

Robert Brown, 1825. 4-storey and basement, terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone, polished at principal floor. Cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor; cill course at 3rd floor; blocking course and cornice at 3rd floor. Ashlar entrance platts and steps oversailing basement.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-bay, with slightly recessed 3-window bowed corner bay at right, comprising basket-arched wrought-iron gateway with overthrow, ring details and pagoda-capped lamp, spanning steps to basement public house; regular fenestration to floors above, with pawn-broker sign to right of centre at 1st floor. St Stephen Street elevation with 3 3-bay and single 2-bay shop fronts; variety of glazed doors and multi-pane square fanlights, plate glass and lying-pane windows; recessed common stair door to right of centre, flush-panelled with 6-pane fanlight; part-infilled door in penultimate bay from right, fanlight remaining as window. Steps to basement with regular openings in bays. Regular fenestration to floors above, with pawn-broker sign centred at 1st floor.

SW (23-24 NORTH WEST CIRCUS PLACE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, with 5-bay pilastraded shop front, with continuous cornice, at ground, comprising 3-bay shop front to right, modern timber door with rectangular fanlight, at centre, flanked by plate glass windows; 2-bay shop from to left, comprising 2-leaf 4-panel door to left, plate glass window to right. Regular fenestration to floors above, with blind windows in bays to left at all floors; pawn-broker sign to right of centre at 1st floor.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stacks; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings, some fleur-de-lis baluster heads, some pineapple finials.

Statement of Interest

Originally known as Brunswick Street, St Stephen Street and Place did not form part of the Reid and Sibbald plan for the 1st extension of the New Town (the Second New Town) though the planning of these additional streets was revised to respect the Second New Town and they are thus taken in with the Second New Town A Group. For Mews to rear, see separate listing (Circus Lane).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807649

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)