Historic houses · Central Scotland
Dundas House
In or near Edinburgh.
Dundas House — office building in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Edinburgh Waverley · 0.3 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
Getting there & planning your visit
Dundas House is located in the City of Edinburgh, postcode EH2 2YB, and is approximately 0.3 km from Edinburgh Waverley railway station. Entry details are not specified, but accessibility is limited for wheelchair users.
About
Dundas House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Records date its origin to 1774. Designed by William Chambers. Heritage designation: category A listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "office building in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh". Coordinates: 55.9546°, -3.1909°.
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Official information
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From the Wikipedia article
Dundas House is a Neoclassical building in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at 36 St Andrew Square, in the city's first New Town. The building was completed in 1774 as a private town house for Sir Lawrence Dundas by the architect Sir William Chambers. Much altered internally and extended over the years, today it is the registered office of the Royal Bank of Scotland and its parent, NatWest Group and is protected as a category A listed building.
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Background
History
The site was previously occupied by a rural refreshment house known as "Peace and Plenty" where visitors could enjoy strawberries and cream. This stood on the road from Edinburgh to Stockbridge, called Gabriels Road, of which remnants are still extant at its extremities. When the town council made plans for a New Town drawn up by James Craig in 1767, the site of the courtyard in front of Dundas House was shown as a proposed church, St. Andrew's, acting as a counterpart to St. George's Church on what became Charlotte Square (originally to be called St. George's Square but an earlier development to the south of the Old Town had been named George Square}. The two were separated by the New Town…
Architecture
Dundas House is a free-standing house designed in the Palladian style. It was modelled on Roger Morris's 1729 Palladian villa Marble Hill House in Twickenham, London but is much grander. The house is built of cream sandstone ashlar, weathered to light grey, from Ravelston Quarry some three miles to the west. It is fronted with a set of Corinthian pilasters supporting a large central pediment. The house is faced with ashlar with a rusticated ground floor. The large, opulent banking hall, added by Peddie in 1857, is covered by a large circular blue dome which is pierced by 5 tiers of star-shaped gold-rimmed coffered skylights radiating out from the central oculus which diminish in size…
Description
In 2017, the International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust Scotland (IMPACT Scotland) announced plans to develop a 1,000-seat concert venue, to be known as The Dunard Centre, behind Dundas House, replacing a block of banking offices that was built in the 1960s. Dundas House would be retained as a bank and would continue to be accessible to the public. Revised planning permission for the development was granted in 2021 following a legal challenge by the developers of a neighbouring site. Work on clearing the site got under way in February 2023. In June 2024, it was announced that the construction of the building would start early in 2025, with a target completion date in 2029.
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- Coordinates
- 55.9546, -3.1909
- District
- City of Edinburgh
- Postcode
- EH2 2YB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith
- Phone
- +44 131 558 7272
- Established
- 1774
- Nearest railway station
- Edinburgh Waverley — 0.3 km
- Official site
- www.thestand.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5314767 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Dundas House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: RBSG HQ, St Andrews Square, Edinburgh.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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📷 4Frequently asked questions
- Where is Dundas House?
- Dundas House is in central Scotland, United Kingdom (postcode EH2 2YB).
- What is Dundas House?
- Dundas House — office building in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.
- How do I get to Dundas House?
- The nearest railway station is Edinburgh Waverley, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can use postcode EH2 2YB.
- When was Dundas House built?
- Built or established in 1774. Designed by William Chambers.
- Is Dundas House a listed building?
- Dundas House is officially recognised as category A listed building listed.
- How do I get to Dundas House?
- The nearest railway station is Edinburgh Waverley, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode EH2 2YB.