12 Hill Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.
12 Hill Square, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- half-bailey-frost
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 12 Hill Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9DR
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94659, -3.1837
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Hill Square in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century, four-storey and basement Classical corner tenement. It features a six by five bay layout and is located on the eastern side of Hill Square, with its rear facing Richmond Place. The building is constructed from squared and coursed, droved sandstone, with chamfered rusticated ashlar at the ground level and rubble at the rear. The entrance platform oversails the basement, and there are band courses above the basement and ground levels, as well as a cill course at the fourth storey and a cornice. The windows have raised cills, and the ground level on the southern side (Hill Place) has round-arched openings. The principal elevation on the western side includes a six-panel timber entrance door topped with a multi-pane square fanlight.
The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with some blind windows on the southern side. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a coped gable and ridge stacks. Additionally, there is low coping on the western side, which is topped with decorative iron railings.
Local climate
12 Hill Square, 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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