8 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.

8 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sunken-flue-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
8 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
OS grid reference
NT 260 728
Coordinates
55.9427, -3.18601
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh is a group of terraced tenements built around the 1780s, with Nos. 9, 10, and 11 designed by John Simpson and Alexander Deans in 1786-7. The buildings are four stories tall, featuring a dormered attic and a basement. They are constructed from ashlar sandstone, with long and short quoined corners, while the rear and side elevations are made of rubble sandstone.

Nos. 7, 8, 12, and 13 each have a Roman Doric pilastered and corniced doorpiece. The entrance doors for Nos. 9, 10, and 11 are set beneath an anta-pilastered doorpiece, topped with a common cornice that forms a pediment at the center. The rear elevations of Nos. 7, 9, and 12 each feature a full-height, two-window, off-centre bowed bay.

The tenements display a variety of glazing patterns and have roofs covered with grey slates. They are topped with wide, corniced ridge and gable stacks that have cylindrical cans, although some stacks at the rear have been rendered. The properties are enclosed by low coped walls with cast iron railings.

Local climate

8 Buccleuch Place, 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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