2 Alva Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement and shop. 2 related planning applications.
2 Alva Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- heavy-facade-thunder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement and shop
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
J. Gillespie Graham, designed 1823; executed by Robert Hutchinson. 4-storey, 11 bays (arranged 6-1-4), classical tenement and shop on prominent corner, curved and recessed single bay at corner; basement area to street including some vaulted cellars and retaining walls to Alva Street. Sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground floor, droved at basement. Banded cill course at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor. Corniced eaves course. Architraved, corniced openings at 1st and 2nd floors. Advanced timber panelled and plate glass shop front to No. 15 Queensferry Street sweeping around corner, set over basement with Dentilled fascia. Round arched doorway surrounds, some with radial glazing. Cast-iron bowed anthemion balconies to 1st floor.
REAR ELEVATION: regular squared coursed rubble with tooled ashlar rybats and lintels to openings. Regular fenestration.
Plate glass in timber surrounds to shop front. 12-and 16-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates, corniced ashlar wallhead and ridge stacks; modern clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Detailed Attributes
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