Sovereign House, 10 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. 2 related planning applications.

Sovereign House, 10 Young Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
salt-loggia-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Address
Sovereign House, 10 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JF
OS grid reference
NT 248 739
Coordinates
55.95285, -3.20488
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sovereign House, located at 12 Young Street in Edinburgh, is a modern office building designed by Alan Reiach, Eric Hall & Partners in 1970. The structure features two storeys and a mansard attic, with a total of 14 bays arranged in a pattern of 4-3-3-4. The exterior is clad in droved cream sandstone, and the central doors are false. The rear elevation is constructed of brick and includes open garaging that oversails. The building has timber sash and case windows with 12 panes each. The mansard roof is covered with grey slates. Inside, the offices are designed in a modern open plan layout.

Local climate

Sovereign House, 10 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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