24 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Building. 5 related planning applications.

24 Princes Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
mired-gargoyle-indigo
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
Building
Address
24 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AN
OS grid reference
NT 257 739
Coordinates
55.95317, -3.19115
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

24 Princes Street in Edinburgh is an earlier 19th-century building that has undergone subsequent alterations. It is a four-storey corner block with modern shops at the ground level. The exterior features painted lined render with ashlar dressings and railings above the shops. The building has three bays facing Princes Street and two bays on South St Andrews Street. The angle is swept at the first floor, with corbelled long and short quoins above. There is a band course above the first floor and a cill course to the second floor, topped with a cornice and a balustraded parapet. The windows are architraved, with timber sash and case windows, and casements on the second floor. The roof is piended, with rendered stacks and grey slates. The interior has modernised shops at the ground level.

Local climate

24 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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