28, 30, 32 Keir Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

28, 30, 32 Keir Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-span-umber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 253 731
Coordinates
55.94535, -3.19722
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28, 30, and 32 Keir Street in Edinburgh is a plain classical tenement block built around 1810. It is three stories tall with a basement and features seven bays, closely resembling the nearby Nos 22-26. The building has channelled ashlar at the ground level, droved stone above, coursed rubble in the basement, and random rubble on the sides and rear. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, a cill course at the first floor, projecting cills at the second floor, and a narrow eaves course.

Stone steps and platts lead to the basement areas. The center bay is slightly recessed and not channelled at the ground level, featuring a timber panelled door leading to the stair and two windows that light the stair above. The main door flats have timber panelled doors with sunburst fanlights, located in the third bay from the right (within a round-headed recessed surround) and in the second bay from the left. The building is regularly fenestrated with 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. It is topped with grey slates, stone skews, and corniced stacks with circular cans.

The boundary wall features decorative finials on the cast-iron railings, which are set atop a low ashlar wall, and there are also finials on the steps and platts.

Local climate

28, 30, 32 Keir 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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