44 Albany Street, Edinburgh

Probably William Sibbald, earlier 19th century. 2-storey, attic and basement, 6-bay classical terrace, comprising mirrored pair of 3-bay houses. 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 floor; corniced frieze at impost level at 1st floor; cill course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at 1st floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pair of round-arched doorpieces flanking centre, comprising 4-panel timber doors flanked by semi-engaged Doric columns supporting lintel, with semicircular fanlights, radial to left (No 42), plate glass to right (No 44). Windows in round-arched recesses in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement, with blank aprons at 1st floor of No 42, cills lowered at 1st floor of No 44. Central curvilinear-fluted wallhead panel. Flagged basement area.

W (ALBANY LANE) ELEVATION: part-obscured by range at ground floor; coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings; window centred at 1st floor, window to left of centre at attic. Flat-roofed triangular-plan range; 2-storey, 6-bay, recessed at centre, with single-bay, single storey and attic addition to left, on sloping site; coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings. 6-panel timber door centred at ground floor, with window above. Infilled windows in penultimate bay from right at 1st floor. Modern 2-leaf 4-panel timber door with plate glass rectangular fanlight to outer right at ground floor; 3-bay corniced former shop front to left at ground floor, with 4-panel timber door and plate glass rectangular fanlight to left, windows in bays to right, window centred at 1st floor; addition to outer left with bipartite windows at ground floor, modern wall adjoining to left; N return not seen, 1998.

E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (46-54 Albany Street).

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Decorative cast-iron window guard in bays to left and right at 1st floor of No 44. Grey slate M-roof. Pairs of slate-hung bow-fronted dormers at Nos 42 and 44. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar and rendered ridge stacks; wide gablehead stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

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