Lister House, Mound Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

Lister House, Mound Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-entrance-jackdaw
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
Address
Lister House, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LU
OS grid reference
NT 254 735
Coordinates
55.94961, -3.1957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lister House is a late 18th century tenement that stands five storeys tall with an attic and features three bays. The building is constructed of squared rubble with ashlar dressings. It has a cill band at the first floor and long and short quoins. The windows have raised margins, and there is a depressed-arch entrance to the pend on the outer left, which is now fitted with a glazed door. The semi-basement on the right is enclosed with cast-iron railings. The attic is adorned with two tripartite pedimented timber dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building has corniced end stacks that feature circular cans.

Local climate

Lister House, Mound Place, 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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