126 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
126 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 126 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AD
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95101, -3.20459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
126 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a building designed by W Hamilton Beattie in 1859, possibly incorporating earlier elements. It is a four-storey, broad two-bay shop with offices above, constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor features a modern shop built over a basement area, while the original strapwork balustrade remains intact. The upper floors include a broad projecting five-light bay with curved ends on the left and a single bay on the right. The windows are adorned with architraves and cornices on the first and second floors, with a console on the right. The building has a modillioned eaves cornice and a simple pierced balustrade.
The interior includes a saloon at the rear with a later gallery to the side. The original staircase to the upper floors is mostly intact, along with the cornices. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
126 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 — 4 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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