68 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966.
68 Hanover Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- roaming-minaret-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Address
- 68 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EL
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95371, -3.19777
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
80 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey, twelve-bay classical office building designed by Covell Matthews Partnership in 1975. It features droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The ground floor has pilasters, and there is an eaves cornice and blocking course. The structure consists of three distinct four-bay blocks, with a pair of identical blocks to the south at the same level, which have a cill course on the shorter third floor and rooflights. The northern block is also at the same level but is a storey lower, featuring four piend-roofed dormers that continue the third storey of the adjoining blocks.
The windows are timber sash and case with twelve panes. The building has ashlar coped skews, droved ashlar stacks, and grey slate roofing.
Inside, there are modern office interiors that interconnect with the blocks to the north and south.
Local climate
68 Hanover 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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