21, 23 Quality 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.

21, 23 Quality Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
solitary-soffit-bittern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
21, 23 Quality Street, Edinburgh, EH4 5BP
OS grid reference
NT 206 752
Coordinates
55.96382, -3.2734
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25 and 27 Quality Street in Edinburgh is a classical pair of buildings designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1827. Each building has six bays, with windows on either side of a central door. They are single-storey with a basement, constructed from coursed rubble and featuring Victorian stop chamfers at the dressings. The buildings have tripartite windows with wooden mullions and a piended roof.

The doors are panelled and have plate glass fanlights above them. The front windows have lying-pane glazing, except for the left basement window of No. 25, which has 4-pane glazing. There are end and mutual stacks with cans.

Steps lead up to the principal doors of Nos 23 and 27, which are flanked by spearhead railings. There are plain railings along the street and a double stair leading down to the basement flats situated between the principal steps.

Local climate

21, 23 Quality Street, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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