37 York Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1966. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
37 York Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- guardian-joist-spindle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1966
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 37 York Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3HP
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 743
- Coordinates
- 55.95613, -3.18979
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
37 York Place is a later 18th century, three-storey terraced house with an attic and basement, featuring seven bays in a classical style. The exterior is constructed of broached ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There is a base course and band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floor, and a cill course at the first floor. The second floor has projecting cills, and the entrance features ashlar steps and platts that oversail the basement.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a nine-panel timber common stair door with a blind six-pane rectangular fanlight at the center, flanked by two four-panel timber doors with radial semicircular fanlights. The principal floor has windows in the remaining bays, with regular fenestration on the upper floors and basement. The basement area is flagged.
The west and east elevations are part of adjoining terraces, which are detailed in separate listings for 29-31 York Place and 39-43 York Place, respectively. The south (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998.
The house predominantly features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows and has a grey slate M-roof with a pair of rectangular slate-hung tripartite dormers and modern skylights. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with broached ashlar ridge stacks that are coped and have circular cans, as well as coped skews.
The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.
Local climate
37 York 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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