8 Hill Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. 3 related planning applications.

8 Hill Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
small-attic-fog
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Address
8 Hill Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW
OS grid reference
NT 261 732
Coordinates
55.94622, -3.18404
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6 Hill Place is a building dating from around 1815. It consists of a pair of four-storey tenements featuring three main doors and a common stair. The building has an 18-window frontage. The basement is constructed from rubble and includes a railed area. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are finished with droved ashlar, which is complemented by a polished ashlar apron band between the first-floor belt and cill courses. The structure is topped with a modillioned cornice.

Local climate

8 Hill Place, 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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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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