40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.

40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
rooted-lime-mist
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
40 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DJ
OS grid reference
NT 250 730
Coordinates
55.94496, -3.20094
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40 Lauriston Street is an earlier 19th century, four-storey, five-bay plain classical tenement. It is constructed of droved ashlar sandstone and features a base course and an eaves cornice. The windows have narrow polished ashlar surrounds, and the building is accented with long and short quoins. The façade is regularly fenestrated and includes a Doric-pilastered doorpiece with foliate necking, as well as a fluted frieze adorned with rosettes at the cornice. The windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames.

Local climate

40 Lauriston 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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