Description

Peter Lorimer, 1806, with later alterations. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced classical house on corner site, with canted bay to outer left. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, and 1st and 2nd floors; cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; mutuled cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: former 2-leaf, 4-panel timber door with 3-pane rectangular fanlight in bay to outer right at principal floor. 6-bay late 19th century public house front (The Conan Doyle) advanced in 4 bays to outer left at principal floor, returned and terminated at Cathedral Lane, comprising some panelled pilasters flanking bays, dentilled cornice and blocking course; plate glass windows; modern 2-leaf panelled timber doors with large plate glass rectangular fanlight to right. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor, including blind window in 3rd bay from right; regular fenestration to floors above and basement, with blind windows in penultimate bay from right at 1st floor and floors above, and in 3rd bay from right at 1st floor and floors above. Flagged basement area.

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

E (CATHEDRAL LANE) ELEVATION: coursed rubble; 4-bay, comprising irregular fenestration to all floors.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. 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 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 Q17569184

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)