24 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. House.
24 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tangled-zinc-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95805, -3.18677
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 Forth Street in Edinburgh is a classical terraced house designed by Robert Burn in 1800. It is a three-storey building with a mansard attic and a basement, featuring a three-bay façade made of painted droved sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has a cill band, while the first floor boasts a full-width decorative iron balcony. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and the entrance is highlighted by platts that oversail the basement. The doorpiece is pilastered and corniced, adorned with decorative capitals and a rosette motif.
The south elevation facing Forth Street features a broad tripartite doorway with a timber panelled door. To the left, there is a segmental-arched fanlight, with windows in the bays remaining. Above, the fenestration is regular, and the mansard roof includes three dormer windows. The windows are timber sash and case with predominantly four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a gablehead stack with a terracotta can, along with decorative cast-iron railings.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
24 Forth 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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