22 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.

22 Hill Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-render-ebony
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 March 1966
Type
House
Address
22 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JZ
OS grid reference
NT 249 740
Coordinates
55.95326, -3.20289
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

22 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a former house built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill. This three-storey and attic building features a three-bay classical design, constructed from droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. The front elevation, which faces north and is situated on sloping ground, has smaller windows with a cill course at the ground level and an eaves course. To the right bay, there is a broad tripartite doorpiece with an architrave, fluted frieze, and a mutule cornice, leading to a two-leaf panelled door. A small piend-roofed dormer is located to the left.

The rear elevation is made of irregular rubble and consists of two storeys and an attic with two bays. It features a projecting stair bay on the left and tripartite windows.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, while the ground floor has plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, which have been rebuilt on the east side and rendered on the west side. The roof is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

22 Hill 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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