5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- standing-frieze-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 South Gray Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1TB
- OS grid reference
- NT 265 718
- Coordinates
- 55.93432, -3.17709
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 South Gray Street in Edinburgh is a classical house built around 1815. It is two stories high and features three symmetrical bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. The ground floor windows have advanced cills, and the first floor windows feature a cill course. The building is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course.
On the entrance elevation, there is a central doorway with a two-leaf panelled outer door and a diamond-patterned fanlight. The doorpiece is adorned with engaged columns, carved paterae, and a dentilled cornice. Above the doorway, there is a single window on the first floor. Each of the outer bays on both floors also contains a single window.
The windows are made of plate glass and are timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, featuring some coped wallhead stacks and some single corniced wallhead stacks with moulded octagonal cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996.
Surrounding the property are boundary walls, gatepiers, and pedestrian gates. There is a low coped rubble wall facing the street, with higher rubble walls to the north and south. The gatepiers are corniced and topped with pyramidal caps, and there are pedestrian gates next to the house on both the north and south sides.
Local climate
5 South Gray 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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