21 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Town house. 1 related planning application.
21 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- half-stair-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 21 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5AN
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 753
- Coordinates
- 55.9651, -3.17934
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21 Pilrig Street in Edinburgh is a mirrored pair of two-storey and attic, three-bay townhouses with a basement, dating from the earlier to mid-19th century. These houses are part of a terrace of nine and are constructed from cream sandstone, featuring tooled ashlar with polished dressings and coursed rubble at the rear. The buildings have an ashlar base course, with architraved and corniced windows on the first floor, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a blocking course.
The front elevation is symmetrical, with doorways in the center bays, each featuring pilastered doorpieces and deep-set panelled doors topped with rectangular plate glass fanlights. There are single windows above on the first floor and in the remaining bays, along with a tripartite canted dormer on the left side.
The rear elevation has single windows, a central wallhead stack, and various dormers. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with black slate and includes lead flashings, Velux rooflights, two apex stacks at the gables, and one wallhead stack. A recessed downpipe is located at the center.
The interior was not seen in 1993. There is a low boundary wall at the front with some original railings.
Local climate
21 Pilrig 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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