Hall To Rear, 45-47 Albany Street, Edinburgh

Probably William Sibbald, earlier 19th century. 2-storey, attic and basement, 6-bay classical terrace. Polished ashlar sandstone, V-jointed rustication at principal floor; rockfaced rustication at basement. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors; panelled frieze at impost level at principal floor of Nos 39 and 41; cill course at 1st floor; blind aprons in bays at 1st floor of Nos 39-43; cornice and blocking course at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced 6-bay terminal pavilion to right (Nos 39 and 41) comprising pair of 6-panel timber doors flanked by semi-engaged Doric columns supporting lintel, surmounted by radial semicircular fanlights, centred at principal floor; windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor, regular fenestration to floors above and basement, with foliate pendant carvings in recessed round-arched panels between penultimate bays from outer left and right and bays at outer left and right at principal floor; foliate swags surmounted by patera between penultimate bays from outer left and right and bays at outer left and right at 1st floor; central curvilinear-fluted wallhead panel. 6-panel timber door with umbrella rectangular fanlight to left (No 43) with window at 1st floor. Windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.

W (YORK LANE) ELEVATION: random rubble gable, chamfered at NW corner; pairs of windows at centre and right of centre at principal and 1st floor, window centred at attic. Coped random rubble wall to right, returned at rear elevation.

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (45-57A Albany Street).

REAR ELEVATION: not seen, 1998.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Pair of box dormers, polygonal to right, at No 39; pair of slate-hung bow-fronted dormers at No 41. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered gablehead stack and variety of corniced and coped broached ashlar ridge stacks, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

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