90, 90A George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Office. 11 related planning applications.

90, 90A George Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twelfth-passage-onyx
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Office
Address
90, 90A George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DF
OS grid reference
NT 250 739
Coordinates
55.95229, -3.20203
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

90 and 90A George Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th century building that was remodelled in 1847. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features three bays, serving as an office with a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted render. The ground floor is designed as a shop, with a pair of panelled doors on either side of a plate glass three-pane shop window. Above this, there is an entablature and a blocking course adorned with amphorae, although two are missing from the centre. The upper floors have architraved windows, and the building is topped with a cornice that includes a cast-iron frieze, along with a parapet that has four piers and vases. There are three large dormers with pediments on the mansard roof.

The gabled elevation facing the lane is made of painted sandstone and features loading doors at the centre. The windows are made of timber, with twelve fixed panes and a central casement on the first floor, and two panes on the second floor. The roof has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, covered with grey slates.

Inside, there is a top-lit saloon located at the rear.

Local climate

90, 90A George 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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