104-105 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Former hotel. 5 related planning applications.
104-105 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- wild-tracery-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Former hotel
- Address
- 104-105 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95157, -3.20089
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
104-105 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey former hotel built by George Beattie & Son (W Hamilton Beattie) between 1875 and 1876. This building features a mansard attic and double garret, designed in the Free Renaissance style with polished cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has been modernized for retail use, while the upper floors are framed by channelled pilasters and have architraved windows.
The first and second floors include canted end bays, with the centre windows arched on the first floor, showcasing sculptures of musical instruments and foliage beneath the cornices. The second-floor windows are pedimented, and the outer bays on the third floor have tripartite windows. A mutuled cornice with lion's head consoles crowns the building. The panelled parapet is interrupted by three bipartite wallhead dormers, with the outer dormers featuring channelled pilasters and segmental pediments topped with central urn finials, while the centre dormer has panelled and fluted pilasters and a pediment that breaks the parapet. There are also two tiers of six small round-headed dormers in the upper garret.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring four panes in the attics. The building has ashlar coped skews, massive corniced ashlar stacks, and is covered with grey slates. The interior has been converted for modern retail use.
Local climate
104-105 Princes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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