6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Office building. 14 related planning applications.

6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
roaming-sandstone-cedar
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Office building
Address
6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
OS grid reference
NT 259 740
Coordinates
55.95346, -3.18762
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Waterloo Place in Edinburgh is an office building designed by Archibald Eliot in 1819. It is a three-storey structure with an attic, featuring a slightly advanced central section and outer sections, and it has 25 bays. The building is situated on a steeply sloping site, dropping to seven storeys at the eastern side along Calton Road. The facade is constructed of ashlar stone, while the rear is built of rubble. It includes a base course, band courses, a cornice, and raised cills on the southern side. The recessed sections have a balustraded parapet, and the ground floor features round-arched window recesses with deep-set windows. The entrances on the north and west sides consist of central six-panel, two-leaf doors topped with semi-circular fanlights.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced central five-bay section and outer three-bay sections. It features a central tetrastyle fluted Ionic portico that rises through the first and second storeys, along with giant Corinthian-style pilasters on the outer three-bay sections, also extending through the first and second storeys.

The west elevation has four bays, with three bays on the left side that include an advanced ground storey topped by a pedimented, giant fluted tetrastyle Ionic portico.

The upper floors predominantly have 12-pane and 6-over-9-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor features 7-over-6-pane timber round-arched sash and case windows. The building is capped with tall, coped stacks.

Local climate

6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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