3 Queen Street, 2, 2A, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1965. 2 related planning applications.
3 Queen Street, 2, 2A, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- mired-rafter-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1965
- Address
- 3 Queen Street, 2, 2A, Edinburgh, EH2 1JE
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 742
- Coordinates
- 55.95521, -3.19531
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Queen Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey attic and basement classical corner block, designed as a replica by Reiach, Hall & Partners in 1969. The building is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, featuring long and short quoins at the corner. The entrances on North St David Street have corniced architraved doorpieces, with a plate glass fanlight above the main door and a three-pane fanlight above the door at No 3. Steps and platts oversail the basement area.
On the east elevation facing North St David Street, there are three bays, with the central door slightly displaced to the left. An attic window is located in the gablehead above the centre bay, which abuts a projecting modern block to the south.
The north elevation facing Queen Street features a cornice and blocking course. No 2 has five symmetrical bays with a pilastered doorpiece at the centre and a plate glass fanlight, along with a set-back link that includes downpipes. No 3 also has five bays, with a central door and three right bays that are displaced to the right.
The building has timber sash and case 12-pane windows, grey slate roofing, ashlar-coped skews, and coped ashlar stacks. The interior consists of modern open plan offices. The property is complemented by cast-iron spearhead railings and wrought-iron lamps located on North St David Street and at No 3.
Local climate
3 Queen Street, 2, 2A, 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 — 2 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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