4-5-6 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
4-5-6 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-transept-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 4-5-6 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9BH
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 732
- Coordinates
- 55.9462, -3.18585
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4-5-6 Nicolson Square is a later 18th century, three-storey and attic tenement building featuring three bays. The ground floor has projecting, flat-roofed shops that have been altered, while the second and attic storeys are distinguished by decorative full-width iron balconies. The building is constructed of droved ashlar with painted margins, and the rear is made of rubble. Notable architectural details include a cill course and a deep, dentilled cornice.
To the right, steps lead up to a timber panelled entrance door topped with a fanlight that has a fan glazing pattern. The roof features a central pedimented dormer flanked by curved slated dormers. The windows display a mixture of glazing patterns, including some six-pane over plate glass timber sash and case windows on the first storey, and eight-pane timber French windows on the second storey. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped gables and wallhead stacks.
Local climate
4-5-6 Nicolson Square, 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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