142-143 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Bank. 19 related planning applications.

142-143 Princes Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
grey-pavement-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Bank
Address
142-143 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4EQ
OS grid reference
NT 247 737
Coordinates
55.9505, -3.20724
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

142-143 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a bank building originally designed by John MacLachlan in 1888, with the facade retained and enclosed by Basil Spence, Glover and Ferguson in 1976. The structure features a 3-storey, 4-bay Italianate bank facade that has been incorporated into a modern 5-storey bank. The original facade is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar and has been stone cleaned. It includes a ground floor with Corinthian columns and pedimented end porches, Corinthian aedicules at the first floor, a swagged frieze at the cornice, and a balustraded parapet. The original facade is now surrounded by an unfortunate banded bronzed plate glass and ashlar curtain wall, which steps back to the fourth floor. The interior has been modernized for bank use.

Local climate

142-143 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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