1-5 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Tenement.
1-5 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rood-lark
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 1-5 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4HU
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95313, -3.20478
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-5 Young Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic, four-bay tenement building, constructed by John Young shortly after 1779. The building is made of coursed rubble sandstone and is located on a corner site. The ground floor has been altered to accommodate shops, with a common stair door at the center featuring a timber cornice and a shop to the left. There are also a pair of piend-roofed dormers.
The gable was largely rebuilt in 1995, and the rear elevation is an irregular three-storey, four-bay design. At the rear, there is a painted two-storey, three-bay mews building that has an infilled carriage arch and a garage door flanking the entrance.
The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, rebuilt ashlar stacks, ashlar coped skews, and grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995, but it is noted to have fine first-floor rooms with corniced overdoors.
Local climate
1-5 Young 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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