18, 19, 20 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 6 related planning applications.
18, 19, 20 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- deep-finial-bramble
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 18, 19, 20 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4QW
- OS grid reference
- NT 245 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95086, -3.21031
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18, 19, and 20 Queensferry Street in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1830. It is four stories tall and has five bays, with later 19th century shop premises at the ground floor that are set forward over basements. The doorway to No. 18 is located on the far left. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features timber and plate glass shop fronts, which are adorned with narrow pilasters and a dentilled cornice.
There are banded cill courses at the second and third floors, along with a corniced eaves course. The first, second, and third floors have architraved and corniced surrounds, with the first floor also corniced. The shop fronts are made of plate glass, while the windows above are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The penultimate left-hand bays on the first, second, and third floors have blind windows. The building has corniced ashlar ridge and parapet stacks, with modern clay cans and cast iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
18, 19, 20 Queensferry 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 — 6 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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