31 Blair Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977.

31 Blair Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Address
31 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR
OS grid reference
NT 259 735
Coordinates
55.94886, -3.1877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

29 Blair Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with a basement and a later attic, originally built in 1788 and later altered. It features 15 bays and was formerly used as stationery works, now converted into flats. The building is situated on a steeply-sloping site and is constructed of droved ashlar with rubble and droved dressings at the basement. It has raised cills, a ground floor band course, and a cill course at the second floor. The ground floor on the left has three round-arched openings accessed by over-sailing stairs. The later mansard roof is steeply pitched and includes dormers at each bay, except for the 13th bay.

The windows throughout are 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with grey slate. The building features cast-iron rainwater goods and has cast-iron railings running the length of the property, with gated stairs leading down to the basement.

Inside, the structure has been reconstructed to accommodate residential development.

Local climate

31 Blair 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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