11, 13, 15 Victoria Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

11, 13, 15 Victoria Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
night-brass-honey
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 August 1987
Type
Tenement
Address
11, 13, 15 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2HE
OS grid reference
NT 255 734
Coordinates
55.94847, -3.19331
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

11, 13, and 15 Victoria Street is a later 19th century tenement building with a 20th century brick extension at the rear. It is a four-storey structure with three bays, rising to six stories at the back, and has a bowed facade that follows the street line. The exterior is made of coursed stugged sandstone, which is painted at the ground level. There is a cornice at the ground floor and a narrow eaves cornice above. The windows have lugged surrounds, with projecting cills on the second and third floors.

Access to the flats is through a door on the outer left, while there is a shop door and three large windows with modern glazing on the ground floor. The building features regular fenestration, with both original and later windows that have projecting cills on the west side elevation. The second and third floors have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, while the first floor has plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The ground floor shops have modern glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a stone skew to the right with a corniced skewputt. Additionally, there is a corniced end stack to the right with circular cans.

Local climate

11, 13, 15 Victoria 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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