14 South St Andrew 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, restaurant. 10 related planning applications.
14 South St Andrew Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- rooted-postern-lake
- 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, restaurant
- Address
- 14 South St Andrew Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95338, -3.19196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
14 South St Andrew Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with a ground floor mezzanine and a double attic, designed by George Washington Browne between 1914 and 1915. The building features a three-bay office with a restaurant located on the ground and basement levels, constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor exhibits channelled rustication, with a corniced architraved door set within an arch. The upper floors are framed by channelled pilasters, and the first and second floors are adorned with giant recessed Ionic columns, topped with an entablature and a dentilled cornice. The first-floor windows are complemented by cast-iron balconies and decorative wreaths above them. The third floor has a continuous row of nine narrow windows. The building is capped with a modillioned cornice and a balustraded parapet, and behind it lies a full-width timber corniced attic featuring four-light windows in each bay, along with a piended roof that includes three segmental-pedimented dormers.
The exterior also includes metal casement windows, grey slates, and ashlar stacks. Inside, the restaurant has a compartmented ceiling and boxed-in columns, while the upper floors are fitted with suspended ceilings.
Local climate
14 South St Andrew 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 — 10 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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