Yorkshire Insurance & Co, 67 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Yorkshire Insurance & Co, 67 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-spandrel-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Yorkshire Insurance & Co, 67 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JG
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95328, -3.20003
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Yorkshire Insurance & Co building, located at 67 George Street in Edinburgh, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and completed in 1867. This four-storey, three-bay office building features a modest Italianate style and is constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. Some mouldings were reduced or simplified during repairs in the 1970s.
The façade includes round-headed windows on the ground and first floors, with an arcade at the ground level that has a consoled cornice and a door in the right bay. The second floor has corniced windows with balustraded balconies, while the third floor features smaller attic windows. An eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The second floor also displays a monogrammed PK and the date 1867.
The ground floor has timber casement windows with border glazing. The roof is a combination of piend and platform styles, covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
Yorkshire Insurance & Co, 67 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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