25-29, 29A Castle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Tenement.

25-29, 29A Castle Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
rusted-gutter-twilight
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 March 1966
Type
Tenement
Address
25-29, 29A Castle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DN
OS grid reference
NT 249 738
Coordinates
55.95213, -3.20292
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25-29, 29A Castle Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building constructed between 1792 and 1794, with some later alterations. It stands three stories tall with an attic and features eight bays that are irregularly spaced. The exterior is made of droved sandstone ashlar. The central right bay has a lugged and pedimented doorway, which is flanked by one shop to the south and two shops to the north. The building has an eaves cornice and features a pair of tripartite piend-roofed dormers on the left and one on the right.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, including a 12-pane window on the stair and the second floor to the left. The building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, which have been rebuilt to the north and are partly rendered at the center, topped with grey slates.

The interior has undergone significant alterations and divisions, but there may be some surviving features from the original design.

Local climate

25-29, 29A Castle 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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