Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

5 AND 7 NELSON STREET, INCLUDING RAILINGS AND LAMPLB29384

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
22/09/1965
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 25427 74415
Coordinates
325427, 674415

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1812. 4-storey and basement, 4-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at principal floor; band course and cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills and continual cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-panel timber common stair door to right at principal floor, with radial rectangular fanlight; round-arched doorpiece in penultimate bay to right, with 6-panel timber door, plate glass semicircular fanlight. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, and to basement. Flagged basement area.

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

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (8, 8A-20 Abercromby Place).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Balcony spanning bays at 3rd floor. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS AND LAMP: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings, with spear-headed balusters. Cast-iron railing-mounted lamp with glass globe.

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.

Nelson Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building started in 1812.

References

Bibliography

Youngson, THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966), pp209-10; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984), p351; MacRae Heritors 38; Register of Sasines.

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