1, 2, 3, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

1, 2, 3, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
heavy-pinnacle-bracken
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Tenement
Address
1, 2, 3, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ
OS grid reference
NT 256 732
Coordinates
55.94666, -3.19138
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1, 2, 3 Greyfriars Place is an earlier 19th-century tenement building that incorporates some earlier materials. It stands four stories tall and has four bays, with shops located on the ground floor. The building is bowed at the corner, which serves as the entrance to Greyfriars churchyard. The exterior is made of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring painted ashlar at the ground floor and rubble on the side and rear. There are cill courses at the first and third floors and a moulded projecting eaves cornice. The windows are set in moulded surrounds.

On the east elevation facing Greyfriars Place, there is a timber panelled door with a border glazed fanlight, flanked by shop windows that also have border glazing on the right. To the left, there is a two-leaf timber panelled door with a blocked fanlight, accompanied by windows with modern glazing. The upper floors are regularly fenestrated.

The west elevation at the rear is irregularly fenestrated and features two gabled dormers with bracketed skews in the attic. The Mylne monument, which is separately listed, is located adjacent to the ground level of the Greyfriars churchyard.

The windows predominantly consist of plate glass set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced cement rendered stacks with circular cans at the wallhead and ridge.

Local climate

1, 2, 3, Greyfriars Place, 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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