11 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 April 1986.

11 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
low-stair-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 April 1986
Address
11 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NB
OS grid reference
NT 260 736
Coordinates
55.95008, -3.18595
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

13-15 Blackfriars Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic tenement building, designed by David Clunas in 1871-1873, based on a design by David Cousin and John Lessels. It features four bays and is situated on sloping ground, forming part of a cohesive row on the east side of Blackfriars Street. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. It has chamfered long and short window margins, with shops on the ground floor, a timber door at the center, and recessed doorways for the shops on the left and right. A moulded cill course is present at the third storey, and there are pedimented dormers that break the moulded eaves course. Above these, timber pedimented attic dormers are set within the pitch of the roof. The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with graded grey Scottish slate. The building also features broad coped ashlar stacks with clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

11 Blackfriars 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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