17-19 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Tenement. 13 related planning applications.
17-19 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- night-corbel-pearl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 17-19 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2EY
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95221, -3.19958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17-19 Frederick Street is a classical tenement building located in Edinburgh, constructed between 1786 and 1792, with later alterations at the ground level. This three-storey building with a basement and attic features a four-bay design and is situated on a corner site, which includes a shop on the ground floor. It is built from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, showcasing long and short quoins and an eaves cornice.
The ground floor contains two shops; the shop on the right is from the 19th century and has a door to the left, a dentilled cornice, and a 12-pane shop window, along with a public basement bar below. The shop on the left was installed in 1994 and is now united as a single office, featuring a stepped platt in front. A large modern slate-hung box dormer with two windows is located to the right, while a smaller dormer is found to the left.
The gable is rubble harl-pointed with irregular fenestration on each floor and subsidiary rendered stacks flanking the apex stack. Access to the flats is via 104a Rose Street, which is listed separately (Nos 100-104 Rose Street). The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, ashlar coped skews, and rendered stacks added to the north gable, topped with grey slates.
The interior has been modernized for office use, while the flats were not visible during the last inspection in 1995.
Local climate
17-19 Frederick Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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