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
12-16 (EVEN NOS) HOWE STREET, INCLUDING RAILINGSLB29116
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Group Category Details
- 100000019
- see notes
- Date Added
- 10/11/1966
- Local Authority
- Edinburgh
- Planning Authority
- Edinburgh
- Burgh
- Edinburgh
- NGR
- NT 25018 74307
- Coordinates
- 325018, 674307
Description
Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802-8. 3-storey and attic, 7-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course at 1st and 2nd floors; projecting cills at 1st floor windows; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: comprising common stair door centred at principal floor, 9-panel door with blind rectangular fanlight; 4-bay shop front with dentilled cornice and consoles, advanced at left, with 9-panel door, plate glass rectangular fanlight to outer right; modern glazed door flanked by plate glass windows to left, plate glass window to S return; 3-bay pilastered shop front slightly advanced at right, with 7-panel door to outer left, plate glass rectangular fanlight, modern glazed door to right, plate glass window at centre.
N (JAMAICA STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay elevation, random rubble with polished dressings, comprising blind windows at principal floor; window centred at 1st and 2nd floors, flanked by blind windows; small window to outer left at attic.
S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate list description (4-10 Howe Street).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Polygonal piended dormer to right; box dormers to left; rectangular dormer to outer left. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Part-shouldered gablehead stack; coped with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with decorative 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.
References
Bibliography
Youngson, THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH (1966), pp 208, 210, 212; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984), pp348-9; MacRae Heritors 38; Register of Sasines.
About Listed Buildings
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