1, 3, 5, 7 Blair Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Public house. 1 related planning application.

1, 3, 5, 7 Blair Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
little-newel-swift
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Public house
Address
1, 3, 5, 7 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR
OS grid reference
NT 259 735
Coordinates
55.94949, -3.18804
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1, 3, 5, 7 Blair Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1790. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and basement, featuring a near-symmetrical, seven-bay design topped with a pediment. The ground floor has round-arched openings and is constructed from polished ashlar stone, with rusticated quoins at the base. The second floor has raised cills, and there is a band course between the ground and first floors. The fifth bay contains a door leading to a later public house, which has an over-sailing stair. A lunette window is set into the pediment, and there are recessed piended dormers at the outer left and right bays.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron railings are also present. The interior of the ground floor has been refurbished for use as a public house.

Local climate

1, 3, 5, 7 Blair 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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