1 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
1 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- endless-pewter-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 1 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5AH
- OS grid reference
- NT 265 752
- Coordinates
- 55.96436, -3.17852
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Pilrig Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey and attic, three-bay terraced town house with a basement. The building features a cream sandstone front with droved ashlar and polished dressings, while the basement is made of coursed and squared rubble, with coursed rubble on the rear and side. It has a base course, a band course above the basement, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course.
On the southwest (front) elevation, there is a doorway in the right bay with oversailing steps, a pilastered doorpiece, a panelled door, and a rectangular plate glass fanlight. The ground floor windows are architraved and corniced, with single windows above and in the remaining bays. A rectangular bipartite dormer, slate-hung, is located above.
The southeast elevation features a blank gable with an apex stack, which is abutted at the ground floor by a neighbouring building. The northeast (rear) elevation has a full-height bowed bay to the left and single windows.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered in black slate with lead flashings, featuring an apex stack and a coped mutual stack.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The property has a low boundary wall at the front with flat coping and remains of original railings, along with railings leading to the steps.
Local climate
1 Pilrig 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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