2-4 Barony Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. 7 related planning applications.
2-4 Barony Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solitary-window-alder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Address
- 2-4 Barony Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6PE
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95833, -3.19019
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a substantial, early 19th-century tenement building dated 1829-34, built to the designs of Thomas Bonnar, and situated on a corner site in Edinburgh. It forms one half of a mirrored pair. The building is characterised by a four-storey main block and a distinctive five-storey, three-bay circular corner tower which breaks the roofline. The principal floor is faced with polished ashlar sandstone, while the upper floors are finished in broached ashlar.
The north-east (principal) elevation is five bays wide, with the ground floor partially built out to accommodate shop fronts. A public house, “Phoenix”, occupies the right-hand side at principal floor level, featuring a two-bay advanced entrance with a pediment and decorative brackets, containing a modern panelled timber door flanked by windows. To the left is a shop front with a recessed glazed door and plate glass fanlight. The corner tower incorporates a door. Above, regular sash windows are arranged on each floor.
The corner tower itself features 20-pane windows on the principal floor. Blind windows are present on the left side of the tower at the first, second, and third floors, with a centrally placed blind window on the fourth floor.
The south-east (Barony Street) elevation is five bays wide, reducing to two and then four bays as it aligns with Barony Street. This elevation includes timber doors with rectangular fanlights and border-glazed small-pane windows. A blind window is located on the third floor.
The north-west elevation is adjoined by a separate terrace and is listed separately. The south-west elevation similarly abuts another terrace, also listed separately. The rear elevation has not been inspected.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case and the roofs are covered with grey slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods and three polygonal wallhead stacks are present on the south-east elevation, alongside broached ashlar ridge stacks with circular cans, coped skews, and ashlar copes surmounted by coped cast-iron railings.
Internal features are not known, though evidence of working panelled shutters has been noted.
Local climate
2-4 Barony 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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