31, 33 Castle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 1991. Former house.
31, 33 Castle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- former-chapel-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1991
- Type
- Former house
- Address
- 31, 33 Castle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DN
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95222, -3.20309
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 and 33 Castle Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built between 1792 and 1794, now featuring shops at the ground level. The building is three stories high with an attic and has four bays that are irregularly spaced. It is constructed from droved sandstone ashlar. The ground floor includes two shops and a door with a 12-pane fanlight leading to the upper floors, which are adorned with panelled pilasters and a cornice. The upper floors have margin drafts and an eaves cornice. A full-width dormer, added in the later 19th century, features a pair of canted windows.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, while the dormers have 4-pane windows. The building has ashlar coped skews, a rebuilt stone stack, and is covered with grey slates.
Inside, the ground floor has been significantly altered, but there may be some original features remaining on the upper floors.
Local climate
31, 33 Castle 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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