115 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. 3 related planning applications.
115 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- turning-iron-twilight
- 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
- Address
- 115 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95476, -3.19757
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
113 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building constructed between 1784 and 1790, with later alterations made to the ground and attic levels. It stands three storeys high on a raised basement and sub-basement, featuring a mansard attic, and is located on a corner site. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and it has long and short quoins at the corner. The ground level includes corniced shops with large windows, while the building is topped with a blind balustraded parapet.
On the Hanover Street elevation, the broad irregular four-bay gable has been rebuilt to create a full attic, supported by consoles that hold the stack. There is a broad two-bay wing to the south with a mansard roof. The elevation features two corniced and architraved doorpieces with multi-pane fanlights, including lozenge glazing at No 117. The right bay has a corniced shopfront and bipartite windows on the second floor and attic.
The Queen Street elevation is also four bays wide, with a shop at the basement level. The mansard roof features a pair of bipartite windows flanking a small bipartite window with diamond glazing.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass at the ground floor, 12-pane windows at the first floor, and mixed sashes at the second floor and attic. The roof is finished with ashlar coped skews, ashlar stacks, and grey slates.
Inside, the ground floor flat at No 117 features a pilastered inner doorway and a round-headed fanlight with teardrop glazing. The former dining room has a panelled dado and a black slate chimneypiece, while the former drawing room facing Queen Street includes a veined white marble chimneypiece and a panelled dado. A blocked archway previously provided access to the current shop space to the south. The common stair has glazed tiles and a wrought-iron banister at the rebuilt attic level, along with glazed front doors and fanlights. The basement at Nos 117a to 121 contains original ranges and other features.
Additionally, there are cast-iron railings along Queen Street and steps leading up to the building, which are topped with urn finials.
Local climate
115 Hanover 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 — 3 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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