7 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970.
7 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hollow-cobalt-elder
- 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
- Address
- 7 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5AH
- OS grid reference
- NT 265 752
- Coordinates
- 55.96454, -3.17875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
9 Pilrig Street is an early 19th-century pair of two-storey and attic, three-bay townhouses with a basement, which are part of a terrace of five. The houses feature a cream sandstone façade with droved ashlar and polished dressings, while the basement and northwest elevation are made of coursed and squared rubble, with the rear also in coursed rubble. There is a band course above the basement, and the ground floor windows are architraved and corniced. The eaves cornice is dentilled, and there is a blocking course at the top.
The southwest (front) elevation is symmetrical, with doorways in the centre bays accessed by steps that extend over the basement. These doorways have pilastered doorpieces, panelled doors, and rectangular plate glass fanlights. Above, there are single windows on the first floor, with single windows in the remaining bays. The dormers include a single and bipartite rectangular dormer for No 7, and a tripartite canted dormer for No 9.
The northwest (Arthur Street) elevation has a gabled roof with an apex stack, small windows in the basement, and blocked windows in the outer bays above. The northeast (rear) elevation features single windows with wallhead stacks and various dormers.
The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing for No 9 and 12-pane windows for No 7. The roof is slate with lead flashings, and there is a mutual coped stack at the apex.
The property includes a low boundary wall at the front with flat coping and plain railings along the wall and steps. The interior was not seen in 1993.
Local climate
7 Pilrig 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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