118-120 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.

118-120 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
strange-facade-merlin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
118-120 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9HX
OS grid reference
NT 250 730
Coordinates
55.94464, -3.20111
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

118-120 Lauriston Place in Edinburgh is an earlier 19th-century classical tenement that stands four storeys tall with a basement and features three bays. The building is constructed of polished ashlar and has cill bands at the first, second, and third floors, along with an eaves cornice. The facade is regularly fenestrated, with windows that have moulded surrounds and panelled aprons. The entrance includes a timber panelled door topped with a plate glass fanlight and a Greek Doric doorpiece, accessed by stone steps that lead to a basement recess.

The windows predominantly feature 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The roof is adorned with corniced ashlar stacks that have circular cans.

Additionally, there is a boundary wall with spear-headed cast-iron railings on a low stone wall that encloses the steps and basement area.

Local climate

118-120 Lauriston Place, 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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