44, 46 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Former house with shop. 3 related planning applications.

44, 46 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
salt-doorway-wagtail
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1966
Type
Former house with shop
Address
44, 46 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EX
OS grid reference
NT 250 740
Coordinates
55.9534, -3.20114
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

44 and 46 Frederick Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built between 1786 and 1792, with later alterations including a new shopfront added in 1996. The building is three stories high with an attic and features three bays, constructed from droved cream ashlar sandstone. The ground floor has a modern timber shopfront with arched windows and a cornice, while there is an arched doorway to the upper floors on the left side, dating from around 1815. The building has an eaves cornice and a piend-roofed canted dormer on the right, complete with a cornice and blocking course.

The rear elevation is four stories high and has two bays, made of rubble, with a single-storey gabled range attached at the back of the shop. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and the building features ashlar coped mutual skews and stone stacks, including a rendered extension to the south, all covered with grey slates.

Inside, there is a central stair that runs perpendicular to the hallway, with access created to No 48 from the first landing. The former drawing room has been subdivided and features a finely carved and painted chimneypiece with fluted pilasters and urns. An attic flat has been created by boxing in the landing.

Local climate

44, 46 Frederick 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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