Description

James Gillespie Graham, designed 1822. 22-bay symmetrical classical terrace, stepped down to N, comprising central linking terrace of 4 3-storey and basement, 3-bay houses flanked by pair of advanced 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terminal pavilions. Polished ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at basement. Base course; band course between basement and principal floor; corniced frieze at impost level at terminal pavilions; cill course at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at 2nd floor of terminal pavilions; cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor of linking block, at 3rd floor of terminal pavilions. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION, LINKING TERRACE: 4 3-bay houses, Nos 3 and 5 with doors in bays to left, Nos 7 and 9 with doors in bays to right. 4-panel timber doors to Nos 3, 5 and 9; 4-panel, 2-leaf door to No 7. Plate glass rectangular fanlights at Nos 3 and 7; multi-pane rectangular fanlights at No 5; rectilinear-design rectangular fanlight at No 9. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above, windows architraved with cornices at 1st floor, architraved at 2nd floor at No 9. Flagged basement area.

W ELEVATION, TERMINAL PAVILIONS: pair of terminal pavilions; Doric pilasters flanking bays at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled pilasters flanking bays at 3rd floors. 4-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights centred at principal floors windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above. Flagged basement areas.

ALBYN PLACE RETURN TO S TERMINAL PAVILION: 5-bay, becoming 11 Albyn Place (see separate listing).

MORAY PLACE RETURN TO N TERMINAL PAVILION: 4-bay becoming 44 Moray Place (see separate listing).

Variety of timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roofs. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Anthemion and palmette window guards in bays at 1st floor of linking block, in bay to outer right at 1st floor at No 1, at 1st floor and 3rd floor of Albyn Place return of S terminal pavilion. Broached ashlar wallhead and ridge stacks, some with cornices; coped, with circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lis and other decorative finials.

Statement of Interest

Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. The Moray Estate was designed for the 10th Earl of Moray (1771-1848). He inherited the 13 acre site from his father, after it was acquired from the Heriot Trust in 1782, and decided to feu the property for development in 1822. The complicated plan, with the crescent, oval and polygon of Randolph Crescent, Ainslie Place and Moray Place respectively, conjoins the New Town with the Second New Town. Building was completed in 1830-31. James Syme lived at No 2, from 1835-37, and Dr Chalmers at No 3, from 1831-35.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing

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