3, 4 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.
3, 4 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- weathered-banister-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 3, 4 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2DY
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94793, -3.20523
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Cambridge Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey building with a basement and attic, constructed in 1863. It features a plain classical terrace design with 19 bays, consisting of one four-bay block and three five-bay blocks. The exterior is made of cream ashlar, with coursed rubble on the sides. The building has a base course, a dividing band between the basement and ground floors, and another between the ground and first floors, along with a moulded eaves course.
The doors and windows have moulded surrounds, and there are panelled aprons on the first floor. Stone steps and platts cover the basement areas. The facade is regularly fenestrated, with timber panelled doors and plate glass fanlights located in the second bay from the left of each block, as well as in the outer right bays of the second, third, and fourth blocks from the right. The slate-hung dormers feature three-light windows.
The building has plate glass in timber sash and case windows, topped with grey slates. It also has corniced ashlar stacks with circular cans.
Additionally, there is a boundary wall and railings, which consist of spear-headed cast-iron railings on a low ashlar boundary wall to No 2.
Local climate
3, 4 Cambridge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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