59-61 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
59-61 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-iron-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 59-61 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DY
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95397, -3.19987
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
59-61 Thistle Street is a tenement building dating from around 1775. It has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with five bays and shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and is situated on sloping ground that falls to the north at the rear.
The central ground floor features a round-headed doorway with an architrave, keystone, and a metal gate that leads to a common stair. To the left, there is a two-bay shop that is rendered and has a stone cornice, while to the right, there are two rendered bays that form part of an adjoining public bar (listed separately as No 55). The building is topped with a pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers.
The rear elevation is five storeys high with four bays, and garage doors have been created at the ground level. The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes, while the shops feature plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks, and brick at the rear, all covered with grey slates.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
59-61 Thistle 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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