132 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Former houses. 4 related planning applications.
132 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- gilded-tallow-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Former houses
- Address
- 132 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AH
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 737
- Coordinates
- 55.9508, -3.20535
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
132 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th-century building that originally consisted of two classical houses, possibly designed by James Nisbet. The structure was refurbished and unified in 1994. It features three storeys and an attic, with a total of three bays, constructed from painted polished sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has two modern shopfronts that extend over the basement.
The eastern bays display an early 20th-century first floor made of timber with curvilinear glazing. The original second floor is highlighted by the upper sections of giant Ionic pilasters, a frieze, a mutuled eaves cornice, and a blocking course. There are also two large pedimented tripartite dormers.
The western bays were formerly two droved ashlar houses, now with later architraves. To the right, there are consoled mutuled cornices at the first floor, while to the left, a later 19th-century canted timber window features three lights at the centre, flanked by Corinthian pilasters and bracketed cills on the second floor. Additionally, there are two dissimilar pairs of later 19th-century piend-roofed canted dormers, with the right pair having bracketed cornices.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass and four panes. The building has ashlar coped skews, rendered stacks, and is covered with grey slates. Inside, a single modern retail unit occupies the two right houses and the upper floors of the left house.
Local climate
132 Princes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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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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