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

78-86A (EVEN NOS) DUNDAS STREET, AND 36A CUMBERLAND STREET, INCLUDING RAILINGSLB28721

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
10/11/1966
Supplementary Information Updated
26/03/1998
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25154 74618
Coordinates
325154, 674618

Description

Thomas Bonnar, 1820. 4-storey and basement, 8-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed chanelled rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal and 1st floors; windows at 1st floor with raised margins and cornices; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Doors and windows of principal floor in square-headed recesses.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-panel timber common stair door, with decorative rectangular fanlight, in 4th bay from left at principal floor; 4-panel timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from left, and with decorative rectangular fanlight in 3rd bay from right. Windows in recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Flagged basement area.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (88-102 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: predominantly regular-coursed squared rubble gable, becoming 36A Cumberland Street; windows at centre right to all floors, and small lights at centre left, at principal, 1st and 2nd floors. Door at centre right at basement. Flagged basement area.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stacks, regular-coursed squared rubble gablehead stack with broached quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lis balusters and pineapple finials.

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 to the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1807. Nos 53-97, odd Nos, and Nos 56-102, even Nos (formerly Pitt Street) formed part of the same plan, but building did not start in Pitt street until 1820. 78-86A, even Nos, Dundas Street was originally 18-22B, even Nos, Pitt Street.

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.

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