18 Duncan Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1997.

18 Duncan Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
bitter-pedestal-dock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1997
OS grid reference
NT 264 719
Coordinates
55.93487, -3.17831
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This garage, located at 20 Duncan Street in Edinburgh, was built around 1870 and features a three-storey, seven-bay symmetrical Italianate design. The structure is made of cream sandstone ashlar and includes a base course, pilasters with advanced architraves for the ground floor openings of the tenement blocks, bracketed cills for the architraves on the upper floors, dividing band courses between the floors, an eaves course, and a cornice.

On the north (entrance) elevation, the tenement blocks have central round-arched doorways with panelled doors and plate glass fanlights. There are single windows on the first floor above, flanked by round-arched bipartite windows at the ground level and bipartite windows on the first floor above. The second floor features single windows. The garage section has panelled stylized pilasters leading to a segmental arched pend with timber gates, a tripartite window on the second floor above, and a balustraded parapet with corniced dies.

The windows are made of plate glass and timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes a rendered and coped ridge stack. The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

18 Duncan 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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