56 Albany Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 September 1964. Manse. 3 related planning applications.
56 Albany Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- frozen-nave-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 September 1964
- Type
- Manse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
J T Rochhead, 1859. 2-storey, attic and basement, 2-bay gothic former manse of St Mary's Free Church. Polished ashlar sandstone. Cornice and coped parapet at 1st floor. Ashlar entrance platt oversailing basement.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pointed-arched doorpiece with moulded reveals, panelled timber door and plate glass pointed-arched fanlight in bay to right at principal floor, with gabletted walls flanking platt to street; platt with gothic detailed boot scraper. Broad canted bay to left at basement and floors above, comprising 5 cusped tracery lights at all floors, chamfered margins, with hoodmoulds removed. Flagged basement area.
W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (46-54 Albany Street).
E ELEVATION: adjoining modern building.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Pair of jerkin-headed slate-hung dormers, with cast-iron cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron gothic detailed railings with quatrefoil motifs and cross finials.
Detailed Attributes
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