66-68 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.

66-68 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
stark-landing-linden
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
OS grid reference
NT 251 740
Coordinates
55.95376, -3.19996
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a late 18th century warehouse and garages located on Thistle Street South West Lane in Edinburgh. It is a three-storey and attic, three-bay tenement featuring a shop at the ground level. The exterior is made of coursed rubble sandstone. The ground floor shop has four bays with enlarged plate glass windows and a door positioned to the centre right, which has been stone cleaned. The second floor is blank in the centre, and there is a large bipartite piend-roofed slate-hung dormer on the left side.

At the rear, there is an irregular two-bay rubble gable that rises to four storeys, with a door providing access to the upper floors on the right side. Adjoining this is a small two-storey warehouse with garages at the ground level and loading doors above.

The building features timber sash and case 12-pane windows, ashlar coped skews, grey slates, and rendered and rebuilt stacks. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

66-68 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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