37-41 (odd numbers) Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

37-41 (odd numbers) Frederick Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
former-banister-storm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1966
Type
Tenement
Address
37-41 (odd numbers) Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EP
OS grid reference
NT 251 740
Coordinates
55.9534, -3.20029
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

37-41 Frederick Street is a classical tenement building constructed between 1786 and 1792, with early 19th century alterations at the ground level. It stands three stories high, with a raised basement and attic, and features six bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and includes an eaves cornice.

The right bay has steps leading to an architraved doorpiece that is adorned with a cornice and an elaborate rosette frieze, leading to a glazed door for the common stair. The inner right bay features steps leading to a ground floor shop with an Ionic columned doorpiece. Each bay on the left has five large plate glass windows framed by fluted pilasters, positioned between a base course and an entablature. The centre right bay has steps leading down to a basement door with a consoled cornice, and there is a three-bay shop with raised architraves to the left in the basement. At the roof, there are two narrow piend-roofed dormers at the centre, along with a broader inset dormer to the left.

The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the first floor and four-pane windows on the second. The skews are ashlar coped, and there are rendered stacks, including a vestigial stone mutual stack to the south, with the skew and eaves of a former building. The roof is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

37-41 (odd numbers) Frederick 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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