28 Stafford Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terrace of townhouses.
28 Stafford Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stony-clay-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Terrace of townhouses
- Address
- 28 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7BD
- OS grid reference
- NT 244 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95001, -3.21206
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
28 Stafford Street in Edinburgh is a terrace of classical townhouses, likely designed by Robert Brown around 1819 to 1824. The building features two and three-storey attics and basements, with basements only on the right side. At the southern corner, there is a three-bay block with a prominent, pedimented center bay. The ground floor on the left has a later timber shop front. Various dormers from the late 19th century can be seen on the attic, including slate-hung box dormers on No. 309 and a later ashlar attic storey on No. 20.
The structure has a five-bay return to William Street, with blind windows on the right and a parapet in the center. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar, which is droved at the basement and channelled at the ground floor. The entrance platts extend over the basement, and there is a banded base course, a band course at the first floor, and a banded cill course at the first and second floors. The eaves are corniced. The doorways have plain surrounds with rectangular fanlights, some featuring geometric glazing.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane in timber sash and case, while the ground floor shop front has plate glass. The building is topped with sandstone skews and grey slates, and features a corniced ashlar gable end, ridge, and pediment apex stacks. There are cast-iron railings along the basement recess and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
28 Stafford 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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