14, 16 North Fort Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. 1 related planning application.

14, 16 North Fort Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-baluster-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Address
14, 16 North Fort Street, Edinburgh, EH6 4EX
OS grid reference
NT 262 764
Coordinates
55.97522, -3.18382
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Madeira Place in Edinburgh is a two-storey and attic, seven-bay classical terrace building dating from around 1860. Originally a three-bay house, it has been converted to include two additional two-bay houses. The exterior features stugged ashlar with ashlar dressings, including a base course, a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced, with moulded architraves at the ground level, and the doors have rectangular fanlights, architraves, and cornices. The building also has canted piend-roofed dormers.

On the North Fort Street elevation, there are three bays to the left with a central door and a pair of canted dormers. To the right, there are four bays with a pair of doors at the center; the outer windows on the first floor break the cill course and feature wrought-iron window guards, along with a pair of dormers. A downpipe recess divides this section.

The Madeira Place elevation shows a three-bay gable made of coursed rubble, with the left bay containing a basement window and a blank first floor. To the left, there is a corniced doorway with a panelled door.

The rear elevations are made of rubble and feature projecting central bays, with a carved tablet located at No 18. The building has timber sash and case four-pane windows, with twelve-pane windows at the rear and gable. The roof is covered with grey slates and features broad coped ashlar stacks and ashlar coped mutual skews.

The walls include a low coursed stone front wall with ashlar saddleback coping, and a taller garden wall to Madeira Place with semi-circular coping.

Local climate

14, 16 North Fort 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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