12 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
12 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- worn-turret-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 12 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95796, -3.18765
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Forth Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by Robert Burn in 1800. It is a two-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring three bays and situated at the end of a terrace. The building is constructed from droved sandstone ashlar, with coursed rubble on the sides. Notable architectural details include a band course between the floors, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The entrance is highlighted by a paired pilastered and corniced doorpiece, with entrance platts that oversail the basement.
On the south elevation, there are timber panelled doors that are deeply recessed, accompanied by round-arched fanlights within the paired doorpiece, which has decorative capitals. The remaining bays contain windows, and the upper section features regular fenestration with two piended and canted dormers.
The west side elevation has a blank gable wall. The building includes timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, small-pane windows in the dormers, and is topped with grey slates. It has skews and gablehead stacks with terracotta cans, along with decorative cast-iron railings.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
12 Forth 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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