17-19 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. 4 related planning applications.

17-19 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lapsed-ember-flax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Address
17-19 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2DL
OS grid reference
NT 253 739
Coordinates
55.95247, -3.19638
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

15-19 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a classical office building designed by James McLachlan in 1930. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features five bays. The building projects from the street line and is constructed of polished cream sandstone, with modern granite facing at the ground level. The windows are closely spaced and corniced on the first floor. It has a heavy mutulated cornice and a balustraded parapet that includes three corniced timber dormers, with the outer dormers being bipartite. There are single bay returns on either side.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, and the building has stone stacks and a mansard roof covered in grey slates. Inside, the ground floor and rear have been modernized for retail use.

Local climate

17-19 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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