Ann Street House and its garden frontage at dusk

COMPLETED 2024 · EDINBURGH

A Georgian house, put back properly.

Nine apartments inside a listed terrace on Ann Street, with a drawing room, a study floor and a screening room kept back for residents.

The rear terrace of Ann Street House above the walled garden

The building set the terms. We worked to them.

Ann Street was laid out in 1817 and the terrace is listed category A, so the fabric decides what is possible rather than the other way round.

We took the house back to structure, repaired the sash windows instead of replacing them, ran the cornices from surviving lengths, and buried the services behind new lining so nothing original had to be cut.

Nine apartments, no two alike.

The plan follows the original room sizes rather than fighting them, so the apartments differ in shape and in outlook. Four face the front garden and the street, five face the long walled garden behind.

They run from 780 to 2,400 square feet. Each has its own store in the vaults and a share of the garden.

The colonnade along the garden front of Ann Street House
Category A listed
Nine apartments
780 to 2,400 sq ft
Walled residents' garden
Original sashes repaired
Rewired and re-serviced
Video entry to both doors
Handed over in 2024

Three rooms nobody had to give up.

The residents' drawing room on the first floor

The drawing room

The full width first floor room at the front, kept as one space and bookable by residents for the evening.

The shared study floor with desks along the windows

The study floor

Six desks, a meeting table and a printer on the half landing, for the days the kitchen table will not do.

The twelve seat screening room in the former coach house

The screening room

Twelve seats in the old coach house at the foot of the garden, with the projector already in the ceiling.

What residents get

A short list, every item of which somebody actually uses.

Residents' drawing room
Study floor
Screening room
Walled garden
Private store in the vaults
Secure bicycle store
Lift to all floors
Video entry
Underfloor heating
Original fireplaces reopened
Residents' parking permits
Managed by Luxe Housing

Sold inside eleven weeks.

Ann Street rarely comes up, and it has never come up nine times at once. Every apartment went before the scaffold came down.

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Sold before completion

2024

Handed over

Stockbridge, ten minutes from Charlotte Square.

Ann Street is the one Georgian street in Edinburgh with front gardens, which is why it prices above the rest of the New Town and always has.

  • Stockbridge shops and the Sunday market at the end of the street
  • The Water of Leith walkway two streets north
  • Royal Botanic Garden a short walk east
  • Charlotte Square and Princes Street in under fifteen minutes on foot
  • Edinburgh Airport in about half an hour by road

Ann Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh

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Ann Street is the work Luxe Housing is asked about most, and the reason most of our Scottish sites now come to us directly rather than through agents.

Ask to see the file.

Drawings, the conservation statement and the completed specification are available to serious enquiries.

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