47 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Office. 5 related planning applications.
47 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-newel-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 47 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95305, -3.19667
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey building with a mansard attic, constructed between 1784 and 1790 and later remodeled by David Cousin in 1868. The building features six bays of offices with projecting shops at the ground level, made of droved cream ashlar sandstone with later polished dressings.
The ground floor has five irregular bays adorned with pilasters, a mutuled cornice, and a pierced balustrade. It includes three plate glass shopfronts, each with its own entrance. The shopfront to the right is flanked by a pair of deeply chamfered round-arched doorways topped with wrought-iron screens. The first and second floor windows are framed with later bracketed architraves, corniced on the first floor. A cornice and parapet above contain six segmental-headed wallhead dormers with acroteria, and all architraves feature incised decoration.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews, rendered stacks, and a roof covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
47 Hanover 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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