18 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1965.

18 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
hollow-newel-grove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1965
Address
18 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5AJ
OS grid reference
NT 264 751
Coordinates
55.96415, -3.17898
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

20 Pilrig Street in Edinburgh is a classical terrace building constructed in 1821 by builder David Sutherland. It is a two-storey and attic structure featuring nine bays, made of sandstone ashlar. The building has projecting cills and a mutulated cornice.

The principal elevation includes pilastered and corniced doorpieces with fanlights located in the first, sixth, and seventh bays. The remaining bays have deep-set windows, and there is regular fenestration above. The dormers include piended and canted tripartite designs for Nos 16 and 18, while No 20 features a box dormer and rooflights.

The south gable elevation is harled and adjoins a neighboring property. The building has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, a roof covered in grey slates, and gablehead and ridge stacks with terracotta cans, along with coped skews.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls consist of low rubble walls topped with ashlar copes.

Local climate

18 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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