Description

1786-92; extended by Victor D Horsburgh or Francis W Deas, 1900. 3-bay 4-storey and attic offices and shop. Original building of droved cream ashlar sandstone, extended in polished ashlar; built out at ground (modernised 1994) and 1st floor - corniced timber glass display window with geometric bow at centre and blind balustrading below cornice. Pilastered arched doorpiece with diamond-pane fanlight to left at ground, giving access to upper floors. 3rd storey cill course at former eaves level; bracketed cornice to outer bays with shaped parapets and segmental-headed dormers in mansard; central ashlar attic bay with paired windows with ogee apron panels and Dutch gable supported on pilasters.

Timber sash and case windows; 4-pane to upper floors; 12-pane to attic. Ashlar coped skews; stacks reduced/removed to S, stone to N; grey slates.

INTERIOR: pilastered inner door with 3-pane fanlight at No 30; straight flight of stairs to 1st floor leads to curving cantilevered former common stair giving access to original flat at each floor.

Statement of Interest

Kirkwood shows a plain 3-bay house with further door to left to upper flat. Horsburgh and Deas both used the address given on the (unsigned) drawings of 1900. A significant surviving part of the original fabric of Edinburgh?s New Town, one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain. A Group with Nos 20-34 (even nos) Frederick Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808207

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)