Description

Later 18th century. 3-storey, attic and basement, 7-bay terraced classical house. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, and 1st and 2nd floors. Cill course at 1st floor. Mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at 1st floor. Mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: doorway comprising recessed 9-panel timber door, with glazed upper and middle panels and 2-pane rectangular fanlight centred at principal floor; flanked to left by round-arched pilastered doorway with architraved 9-panel timber door and radial semicircular fanlight; flanked to right by panelled timber door with plate glass semicircular fanlight, with modern canopy reading 'Osborne Hotel', hung by wall-mounted decorative iron brackets. Regular fenestration in remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (53-55 York Place).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (63-67 York Place).

S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Pair of rectangular slate-hung dormers to right; box dormer spanning 3 bays to left, with pair of canted windows. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered and lined ridge stack; broached ashlar ridge stacks; rubble and broached ashlar stack breaking pitch; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.

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. Feuing in York Place began in 1793, when Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrews Square to the city.

No 47 York Place was the residence of Thomas Hamilton (1784-1858), the Greek Revival architect, whose Edinburgh designs included the Burns Monument, the Royal College of Physicians and George IV Bridge.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569171

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