1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Tron Square (Lower And Upper) is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 2006. 4 related planning applications.
1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Tron Square (Lower And Upper)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-slate-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 2006
- Address
- 1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Tron Square (Lower And Upper), EH1 1RR
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 735
- Coordinates
- 55.949, -3.18897
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The buildings at 7-12 Tron Square, constructed around 1900 by the City Engineers Department, consist of three four-storey blocks set on sloping ground. Originally, these blocks housed 105 separate workmen's dwellings. They are made of cement-rendered brick with cement dressings around the openings, featuring projecting cills and discontinuous base and string courses. The design includes vernacular detailing such as crow-stepped gables, dormers, piended roofs, and projecting eaves.
In the lower square, there are two L-plan blocks that form a U-plan, with a flight of stairs leading up to the upper square situated between them. The outer corners of these blocks feature projecting four-storey towers with canted windows, alongside flanking staircases. Common stairs are located in the re-entrant corners, leading to concrete decks supported by iron columns and railings.
The upper square contains a four-storey rectangular block. This block has projecting outer bays topped with piended roofs and distinctive ogee-shaped gable dormers that break the wallheads. A common staircase is positioned slightly left of centre, leading to concrete decks that provide access to each floor. The arrangement of doors and windows on either side of the staircase is irregular.
The windows are timber sash and case, predominantly featuring four and six-pane upper sashes with plate glass lower sashes. The buildings have harled and coped ridge stacks with mainly red clay cans and are roofed with grey slate.
Local climate
1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Tron Square (Lower And Upper) 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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