23 Spittal Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

23 Spittal Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
turning-mullion-primrose
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement
Address
23 Spittal Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DZ
OS grid reference
NT 249 732
Coordinates
55.94672, -3.20288
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 23 Spittal Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1870 and is a four-storey, three-bay tenement. The ground floor is finished in polished ashlar, while the upper floors feature droved stonework. There is a dividing band between the ground and first floors, and a cill band is present on the two bays to the left at the third floor. The building has a moulded eaves cornice. The windows in the right and left bays are bipartite, and there is a timber panelled door with a small-pane glazed fanlight in the centre.

The building features predominantly modern glazing and is topped with grey slates. The stacks are rendered and have circular cans.

Local climate

23 Spittal 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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