Description

4-storey and basement, 9-bay terraced tenement. Band courses between basement and principal floor, and principal and 1st floor; projecting cills to 1st and 2nd floor windows; continuous cornice at 2nd floor; cornice and blocking course at 3rd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flush-panelled timber common stair door centred at principal floor, with radial rectangular fanlight, flanked by windows; flush-panelled timber doors in bays 3rd from left and right; windows in remaining bays at principal floor. Regular fenestration to floors above. Windows guards in bays at 3rd floor, except in centre bay.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (68-76 Dundas Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (44-86 Great King Street).

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble ridge stacks with broached ashlar quoins; coped, with circular cans.

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

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by iron railings with spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.

Statement of 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. 56-66A Dundas Street was formerly 4-10A Pitt Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805471

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