Description

Robert Reid and William Sibbald, 1802. 4-storey and basement, 5-bay terraced tenement. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Band course and cill course at 1st floor; band course at 2nd floor; projecting cills to 2nd floor windows; blocking course at 3rd floor, with cornice removed. Entrance platts and steps oversailing basement, to outer left and right.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay corniced shop front centred at principal floor, comprising recessed glazed door flanked by plate glass windows, flanked by 2-bay pilastered and corniced shop front to right, panelled door, plate glass rectangular fanlight to left, plate glass window to right; round-arched doorpiece to outer left, 9-panel timber common-stair door, with radial semicircular fanlight.

N ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (19 and 19B Howe Street).

S ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (11 and 13 Howe Street).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Rendered ridge stack, broached gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans. Skews.

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

RAILINGS: iron railings.

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.

Howe Street was part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Reid and Sibbald in 1802. Building began in 1808.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809733

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6