Description

Later 18th century, with later doorpiece by Hippolyte J Blanc, 1884, rear addition by Leadbetter, Fairley and Reid, 1934. 3-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced classical house. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floor; cill courses at 1st and 2nd floors; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: fluted Ionic pilastered doorpiece in bay to left at principal floor, comprising decorative floreate lintel, with entwined 'PS' shield emblem and dentilled cornice; 2-leaf, 6-panel timber door with decorative rectangular fanlight; 3-panel inner door with leaded glazed upper panel, inscribed 'The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain'. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (34 York Place).

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (38 York Place).

N (REAR) ELEVATION: later addition at ground, to Dublin Street Lane South. Single storey, 3-bay former store house. Stugged and squared sandstone, with red sandstone dressings. Base course; corniced frieze. Infilled architraved doorway with cornice to right; infilled architraved bipartite window with cornice to right of centre; segmental-arched multi-pane window to left.

Predominantly plate glass lower sashes and 2-pane upper sashes in timber windows. Grey slate M-roof. Rectangular slate-hung dormer. Modern skylight. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stack; 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 Q17569292

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)