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. Mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floors. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: doorway comprising 9-panel timber common stair door with plate glass rectangular fanlight centred at principal floor, flanked by round-arched doorways, with 6-panel timber doors, radial semicircular fanlight to right, plate glass semicircular fanlight to left. Regular fenestration in remaining bays at principal floor and to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (57-61A York Place).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (69-73 York Place).

S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Pair of rectangular slate-hung dormers to right; bow dormer spanning 3 bays with pair of canted windows to left. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stacks; 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, after Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrew Square to the city.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569174

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)