Dobie & Son, 94, 94A George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Dobie & Son, 94, 94A George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- swift-spire-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Dobie & Son, 94, 94A George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DF
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95227, -3.20229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dobie & Son, located at 94 and 94A George Street in Edinburgh, is a narrow four-storey, two-bay Renaissance office building with a shop on the ground floor. Designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1882, the shopfront was added in 1929. The ground floor features a three-bay neo-Georgian shopfront, with a doorpiece on the right that includes a cornice and a pedimented fanlight. The first floor is framed by coupled Ionic pilasters and an entablature, which surround arched windows and a shell-headed niche at the center. The second floor has similar features but uses Roman Doric pilasters, pilastered bipartite windows with sculptured friezes, and a central panel. The third floor has a six-bay arcade framed by panels, topped with a cornice and a panelled parapet.
The building has a dressed sandstone elevation facing the lane, which includes a central Venetian window and a hoist with a loading door to the left. The windows are timber, with casements on the first floor and plate glass sash and case windows above. A corniced ashlar stack and grey slates complete the exterior.
Inside, there is a top-lit saloon at the rear.
Local climate
Dobie & Son, 94, 94A George 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 — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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