8 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Hill Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- steep-pavement-peregrine
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95341, -3.20194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a pair of mirrored, classical former houses built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill. These three-storey and attic structures feature three bays and are constructed from droved cream ashlar stone with polished dressings, which have been cleaned. The front elevation includes a cill course at the ground level and an eaves course. The doorways are framed by Roman Doric pilastered doorpieces, adorned with a fluted frieze and a single cornice above the inner bays. The doors are deep-set and flush-panelled, complemented by three-pane fanlights. Number 6 has a mansard roof with two dormers.
The rear elevation is made of rubble and consists of two storeys and an attic with two bays, featuring stair windows at the centre. The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with 12 panes each. The building is topped with ashlar coped skews and covered in grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
8 Hill 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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- Radon risk assessment
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