16 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House. 5 related planning applications.
16 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- cold-loggia-kestrel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JB
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95281, -3.20567
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Young Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built by John Young shortly after 1779. The building features two storeys, a half-sunk basement, and an attic, with a three-bay facade made of droved cream sandstone ashlar and polished dressings. It has an eaves cornice and a central bay that includes an architraved corniced doorpiece, which leads to a deeply set door and fanlight, although the wrought-iron lamp bracket is damaged. The left bay has tripartite windows, while the right bay has an enlarged window at ground level. There are also two small piend-roofed dormers.
The rear elevation is constructed of coursed rubble and has four bays, with a projecting two-storey tower on the left bay and a slightly recessed right bay. A stair window is located at the center of the rear. The building features timber sash and case 12-pane windows, ashlar coped skews, stone stacks, and is topped with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
16 Young 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 — 5 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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