63 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1966.

63 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gaunt-window-stoat
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 May 1966
OS grid reference
NT 250 743
Coordinates
55.95665, -3.20141
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

63 Northumberland Street is part of the Second New Town, a group of buildings recognized for its significant surviving urban planning, considered one of the most important and well-preserved examples in Britain. The property is included in the group listing 100000019. Details of the building’s construction and historical context can be found in Youngson's The Making of Classical Edinburgh (1966), Gifford, McWilliam and Walker’s Edinburgh (1984), MacRae Heritors 38, and the Register of Sasines.

Local climate

63 Northumberland 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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