45 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
45 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hollow-pavement-honey
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 45 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95366, -3.19868
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
45 George Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built around 1775, which was refaced and had an extra storey added by Thomas Hamilton in 1829. The building underwent further alterations by Covell Matthews Partnership in 1974. It stands four storeys tall with an attic and has three bays, constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar.
The ground floor features a four-bay fluted Ionic colonnade that screens a glazed shopfront behind it. The windows on the first and second floors have a moulded cill course and architraves, with cornices on the first floor and three flag poles. Above, there is a dentilled cornice, and the third floor has windows set in square recesses, accompanied by another cornice and a blocking course.
The building has a dressed stone elevation facing the lane, which is four storeys high with a raised basement and a modern double mansard attic. The timber windows include four-pane casements on the first floor and 12-pane sash and case windows on the upper floors. The roof features ashlar coped skews, a corniced stone stack on the east side, and a rendered stack on the west side, all covered with grey slates.
Inside, the interior is outstanding but has been significantly modernised. It includes a retreating pair of rooms that are divided by a screen of paired Ionic columns, with a domed saloon located at the rear.
Local climate
45 George 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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