87 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 12 related planning applications.
87 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- north-cobble-auburn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 87 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95292, -3.20199
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
87 George Street in Edinburgh is a former classical house built around 1775, with an interior designed by David Bryce in 1835. The shopfront has been renewed twice, first in 1910 and then again in 1993. The building is three stories tall with an attic and features a three-bay shopfront that is extended at the ground level. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar.
The shopfront includes a splayed central entrance with a panelled door to the upper floors on the right, all situated below a consoled cornice and fascia. The first-floor windows have lugged architraves, with the central window featuring a consoled pediment and the flanking windows having cornices. There are also a pair of flagpoles at the second floor and an eaves cornice. The building has a pair of bowed piend-roofed dormers that are slate-hung.
At the rear, the building is expressed as a single storey and basement elevation facing the lane. It has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass and 12-pane windows in the dormers. The skews are ashlar coped, and there is a rebuilt stone stack to the east, topped with grey slates.
Inside, the building boasts very fine decorative plasterwork and chimneypieces throughout the shop. The main space features a top-lit saloon that is delineated by columns, with offices located at the rear.
Local climate
87 George 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 — 12 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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