Sasine Office, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Office building.
Sasine Office, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- under-transept-claret
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Office building
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95442, -3.18938
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sasine Office, located within the General Register House on Princes Street in Edinburgh, was designed by W T Oldrieve and built between 1902 and 1904. This three-storey building with a basement features polished cream sandstone ashlar, showcasing channelled banded rustication and arcading at the ground level. The windows are architraved, and there is a mutulated cornice.
On the east elevation, the building has six bays, with the end bays projecting forward. These feature pedimented first-floor windows that have balustraded aprons. The elevation is topped with a balustraded parapet. The south elevation consists of two bays and includes a link to the Register House, bridging the basement at the ground and first floors, with a modern upper section that has a lunette window. The west elevation has five bays.
The building is fitted with timber sash and case windows and has a piended roof covered with grey slates. Inside, there is a large trabeated room on the first floor, which is now connected to the Historical Reading Room of the Register House.
Local climate
Sasine Office, General Register House, Princes 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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