130 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. House.
130 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- keen-baluster-burdock
- 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
- House
- Address
- 130 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AH
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95097, -3.20518
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
130 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a former house built in the late 18th century, possibly by James Nisbet, and later altered by Alexander MacGregor in 1862. The ground floor shopfront was designed by Robert Paterson in 1885-1886. The building is three stories high with an attic and features three bays, constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor extends over a basement and is characterized by round arches supported by thin iron colonnettes, along with a fascia and cornice. The upper floors have later wooden architraves, a triglyph frieze, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. At the center, there is a large gabled timber tripartite dormer.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and the building has ashlar coped skews, rendered stacks, and grey slate roofing. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
130 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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