63, 65, 67 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Tenement.
63, 65, 67 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- final-steeple-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95395, -3.20005
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 63, 65, and 67 Thistle Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1775 and is a three-storey tenement with a basement and attic, featuring five bays. It is situated on a corner site with the ground sloping down to the north at the rear. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with an ashlar ground floor.
On the ground level, there are deep-set doors leading to the three central bays, with the center bay providing access to a common stair and the flanking bays serving as shops. The building has two piend-roofed dormers, with a tripartite dormer located to the right. The gable features a window on each floor, as well as one window in the shop area.
The rear elevation is irregular, consisting of five storeys and four bays, with a garage door added at the ground level. The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, while the shops have plate glass windows. The building is topped with ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks, and grey slate roofing.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
63, 65, 67 Thistle 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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