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Latitude: 55.9571 / 55°57'25"N
Longitude: -3.1932 / 3°11'35"W
OS Eastings: 325596
OS Northings: 674428
OS Grid: NT255744
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.P1
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XJLK
Plus Code: 9C7RXR44+RP
Entry Name: 2A-4 Albany Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2 and 4 Albany Street, and 27-33A (Odd Nos) Dublin Street, Including Railings
Listing Date: 13 September 1964
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365755
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28227
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200365755
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Thomas Bonnar, 1815. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement on corner site. Broached ashlar sandstone; polished ashlar at principal floor and basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door, with multi-pane rectangular fanlight, centred at principal floor, flanked by pair of 2-bay shop fronts, comprising plate glass windows, flanked by panelled timber doors with plate glass rectangular fanlights to outer left and right; regular fenestration to floors above, and at basement.
W (DUBLIN STREET) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to all floors, with blind windows in bay to outer right and penultimate bay from right, at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Basement comprising 5-bay restaurant to left, with glazed door and plate glass windows; 2-bay shop front to right, with glazed door and plate glass window.
N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11 Dublin Street).
E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (6 and 6A Albany Street).
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble ridge, wallhead and gablehead stacks, rendered shouldered wallhead stack; coped, with circular cans.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1997, but some evidence of working panelled shutters.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed balusters and urn finials.
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.
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