27 York Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1966. House. 4 related planning applications.
27 York Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- floating-footing-weasel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 27 York Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3HP
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 743
- Coordinates
- 55.95601, -3.19029
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
27 York Place is a later 18th century, three-storey terraced classical house with an attic and basement, situated on a corner site in Edinburgh. The building features broached ashlar sandstone with V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. It has a base course, band courses between the basement and principal floor, and between the principal and first floor, as well as a cill course at the first floor and a cornice at the second floor. The second floor has projecting cills, and there are ashlar steps leading to an entrance platform that oversails the basement.
On the north (principal) elevation, there is a round-arched doorway located to the right of centre at the principal floor, featuring a four-panel timber door and a two-pane semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays at the principal floor have windows, while the upper floors and basement display regular fenestration. The basement area is flagged.
The west (Elder Street East) elevation consists of a four-bay gable with an extension to the right, which was added after the 1969 demolition for the widening of Elder Street, and is built on falling ground. This elevation has three windows at the principal floor, with a blind window in the outer left bay and the penultimate bay from the left. The first and second floors have irregularly spaced windows, and there is a pair of windows in the attic.
The east elevation is part of an adjoining terrace, which is detailed in a separate listing for 29-31 York Place. The south (rear) elevation is mostly not visible and includes a flat-roofed full-height single bay extension to the left, with a window centered on all floors.
The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and a pair of slate-hung rectangular tripartite dormers, along with modern skylights. It has cast-iron rainwater goods and a broached gablehead stack that is corniced with circular cans, as well as coped skews.
The interiors were not seen in 1998. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.
Local climate
27 York 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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