2 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
2 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- over-cobble-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1993
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 2 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1EJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93819, -3.20092
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Marchmont Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey, four-bay tenement building designed by Thomas Gibson around 1878. It is part of a terrace and is constructed from coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The building features a base course, a string course above the ground floor, a corbel table at the third floor, an eaves cornice, raised window surrounds, and chamfered reveals.
On the entrance elevation, there are chamfered arisses to the doorway located in the third bay, which has a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. To the right of the doorway is a single window, with additional single windows above. The building also has a pedimented dormerhead with a stone finial. The second and fourth bays contain full-height canted windows with dividing cornices and facetted pyramidal roofs topped with wrought-iron finials. There are single windows in the outer left bay, along with another pedimented dormerhead featuring a stone finial. The windows throughout are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has corniced mutual stacks.
The boundary of the property is marked by coping along the street. The interiors were not seen in 1991.
Local climate
2 Marchmont 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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