16, 17, 18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 4 related planning applications.

16, 17, 18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
moated-bracket-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
16, 17, 18 West Preston Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9PU
OS grid reference
NT 263 724
Coordinates
55.93922, -3.18022
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

13, 14, and 15 West Preston Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey classical tenement designed by Thomas Brown in 1824. The building consists of five blocks, featuring four blocks with eight bays and one block with nine bays located at numbers 16-18. The blocks are slightly stepped and include belt courses at the first and third floors, with basements present at numbers 14-18.

Local climate

16, 17, 18 West Preston 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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