13, 15 Dublin Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Entry Name: 13, 15 Dublin Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 13 and 15 Dublin Street, Including Railings

Listing Date: 24 May 1966

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 367116

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28680

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200367116

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, early 19th century. 3-storey, attic and basement, 3-bay terraced tenement. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor; broached ashlar at basement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, principal floor and 1st floor, 1st and 2nd floors; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; dentilled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched doorpiece to near centre at principal floor, with Ionic columns supporting entablature, with foliated necking and fluted frieze; 4-panel timber door, plate glass semicircular fanlight. 9-panel timber common stair door to right, with plate glass rectangular fanlight. Tripartite window in bay to left, and to bays at left above; regular fenestration in remaining bays at 1st and 2nd floors, and to basement.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (17 and 17A Dublin Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11 Dublin Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof; slate hung rectangular dormer to left. Pair of rubble stacks breaking pitch to right, rubble ridge stack, rubble gablehead stack, all with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with urn finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Second New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the best preserved and most important examples of urban planning in Britain. 13-15 Dublin Street was formerly 13-15 Duke Street. Duke Street was feued by the Magistrates in 1799. Building began in 1801. It was continued northwards by Reid and Sibbald as Dublin Street in 1802 as part of their plan for the first extension of the New Town. Building began in 1803. In 1966 Duke Street was renamed as Dublin Street but retained its old numbers, while the original Dublin Street was renumbered.

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