15 Stafford Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.

15 Stafford Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Townhouse
Address
15 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7BR
OS grid reference
NT 244 736
Coordinates
55.94975, -3.21113
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

15 Stafford Street in Edinburgh is a terrace of buildings likely designed by Robert Brown around 1819 to 1824. It features nine bays, including two two-storey, three-bay classical townhouses and a prominent three-storey, three-bay corner block with a breakfronted pedimented bay in the center. The structure includes a basement and attics, and there is a four-bay return to Alva Street with blind openings on the right-hand bays.

At the ground floor of No. 13, there is a later timber and glazed shopfront in a plain classical style, featuring a radial glazing pattern and an entrance to the townhouse located to the far right. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with channelled ashlar at the ground floor. It has a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, a banded cill course at the first floor, and a corniced eaves course. The rectangular dormers include bi-partite windows for No. 13.

The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style, with some featuring 12-pane configurations. There are also 15-pane glazing in fixed timber frames and double-glazed double timber doors at the ground floor shopfront. The building has sandstone skews and is covered with grey slates. The apex of the corniced ashlar pediment and the gable end stacks have modern clay cans. Additionally, there are cast-iron rainwater goods and cast-iron railings edging the basement recess for Nos. 11 and 15.

Local climate

15 Stafford 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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