15 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
15 Hill Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lost-brass-winter
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 15 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JP
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 740
- Coordinates
- 55.9535, -3.20266
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
15 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a former house built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill, with some later alterations. The building is three stories high with an attic and features a classical design with three bays. It is constructed from droved cream ashlar sandstone, which has been cleaned, and includes polished stone dressings. The ground floor has smaller windows with a cill course, and there is an eaves course above. To the left bay, there is a broad tripartite architraved doorpiece that has a fluted frieze and a mutule cornice, with a modern panelled door. The building also has a full-width timber box dormer.
The rear elevation is made of irregular rubble and includes a projecting closet and stair bay on the right side, along with a tripartite window on the first floor to the left. There is a slate-hung box dormer as well. The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, while the rear features plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, which are rendered on the east side, topped with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
15 Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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