25 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. 1 related planning application.
25 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tattered-belfry-acorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Address
- 25 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AN
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95314, -3.19125
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 Princes Street in Edinburgh is an earlier 19th-century building that has undergone subsequent alterations. It is a four-storey corner block with modern shops at the ground level. The exterior features painted lined render with ashlar dressings and railings above the shops. The building has three bays facing Princes Street and two bays on South St Andrews Street. The angle is swept at the first floor, with corbelled long and short quoins above. There is a band course above the first floor and a cill course to the second floor, topped with a cornice and a balustraded parapet. The windows are architraved, with timber sash and case windows, and casements on the second floor. The roof is piended, with rendered stacks and grey slates. The interior has modernised shops at the ground level.
Local climate
25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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