Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

22-104 (EVEN NOS) ST STEPHEN STREET, INCLUDING RAILINGS AND LAMPLB29748

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000019 - see notes
Date Added
14/12/1970
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 24754 74506
Coordinates
324754, 674506

Description

Robert Brown, 1825; No 104 by George Smith, 1835-6. 37-bay 3-storey and basement terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone, predominantly polished ashlar at principal floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corniced principal floor, predominantly of pilastraded 2 and 3-bay 2-level shop fronts up to and including No 74, comprising 2-leaf glazed doors, 2-leaf 4-panel timber door to No 74; variety of rectangular fanlights; plate glass and lying-pane windows. 4-panel timber common stair doors in bays 5th, 13th and 21st from right. To E of No 74 doors in bay to outer left, and in bays 6th, 9th and 11th from left, windows in remaining bays at principal floor. Regular fenestration in bays to floors above. No 104 slightly advanced, with taller attic; bipartite window in penultimate bay from left at 2nd floor; blind aprons to 1st floor windows; carved wallhead tablet reading 'St Stephen's School' spanning centre bays on Playfair-esque consoles flanking central 2nd floor windows, surmounted by stone open book sculpture with carved inscription; cornice returned and terminated at corners.

NE ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining building at principal floor, see separate listing (106 St Stephen Street); blank at 1st and 2nd floors.

SW ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (Nos 2-18 St Stephen Street).

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

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

RAILINGS AND LAMPS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with some spear-headed and fleur-de-lis balusters; cast-iron lamp with copper lantern at No 74.

Statement of Special Interest

Originally known as Brunswick Street, St Stephen Street and Place did not form part of the Reid and Sibbald plan for the 1st extension of the New Town (the Second New Town) though the planning of these additional streets was revised to respect the Second New Town and they are thus taken in with the Second New Town A Group. Nos 22-58 refaced by John C Hope, 1976-80. For mews to rear, see separate listing (Circus Lane).

References

Bibliography

Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984), pp411-12.

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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