Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

3-7 (ODD NOS) DUNDAS STREET, INCLUDING RAILINGSLB28702

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000019 - See notes
Date Added
18/08/1964
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25273 74345
Coordinates
325273, 674345

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century, with late Victorian additions. 4-storey and basement, 7-bay terraced tenement, with 4th storey as wallhead attic. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; projecting cills at 2nd floor; cornice at 2nd floor; string course and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance plats oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9-panel flush-beaded timber common stair door, with rectilinear rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor; slightly advanced pilastered doorpiece in 3rd bay from left, with single fluted pilaster with Corinthian capital surviving, comprising 4-panel timber door and plate glass rectangular fanlight; 3-bay pilastered and corniced shop front (No 7A, P Clark Thomson & Son) advanced to outer left, with glazed doors and plate glass windows; pair of doors in 3rd bay from right, both 6-panel with plate glass rectangular fanlights; 2-bay shop front to right, comprising recessed glazed door with rectilinear rectangular fanlight, 2-pane plate glass window to left; regular fenestration to floors above. Regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement, with 2-bay shop front to right, with glazed door and plate glass window.

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (21-34 Abercromby Place).

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (9-13C Dundas Street).

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

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters.

Statement of Special Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. Dundas Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807.

References

Bibliography

Youngson, THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966), pp209-10, 212; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984), pp344-5, 348, 421; McKean, EDINBURGH (1992), pp113, 137; MacRae Heritors 38; Register of Sasines.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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