4, 4A Casselbank Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Terraced houses. 5 related planning applications.

4, 4A Casselbank Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
long-wall-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Terraced houses
Address
4, 4A Casselbank Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5HA
OS grid reference
NT 268 758
Coordinates
55.97024, -3.17367
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 and 4A Casselbank Street in Edinburgh are a pair of mirrored three-storey and attic terraced houses built around 1815, featuring classical architectural details. The exterior is made of cream sandstone with an ashlar front, although the stonework is in poor condition and has extensive plastic repairs. The ground floor is polished, while the upper levels are tooled, with coursed rubble at the rear. The houses have a base course, architraved windows on the ground floor, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course.

On the front elevation, there are Roman Doric doorpieces in the inner bays, which are rendered and topped with cornices and a blocking course. No 4 has a panelled door that is partly glazed, along with an original fanlight, and single windows above. The remaining bays also feature single windows. There are three rectangular dormers on the roof, with the outer right being tripartite and having half-piended roofs.

The rear elevation has single windows and four dormers. The houses have timber sash and case windows, mostly with 12 panes, and plate glass glazing on the ground and first floors of No 5. The centre and left dormers have replacement windows. The roof is slate with mutual stacks, and there is a downpipe recess that divides the two properties. The interior was not seen in 1992.

Local climate

4, 4A Casselbank 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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