7-11 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
7-11 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- long-steeple-vermeil
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 7-11 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9BH
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94616, -3.18613
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7-11 Nicolson Square is a later 18th century, four-storey, six-bay corner tenement. The ground floor has been altered for commercial use, and there is a three-storey piend-roofed ashlar bay added to the left around 1886. The building features later projecting, flat-roofed, single-storey shop fronts facing Nicolson Square to the south. The structure is made of coursed rubble with some Aberdeen bonding and has raised margins, some of which are painted. There is a cornice at the third and top storeys.
At No 7, there is a later seven-light canted bay window on the first storey. The upper storeys of the bay to the left have three-light windows with timber mullions. No 8 has a six-panelled timber entrance door with a rectangular fanlight above it. The shop front at No 11 includes a recessed glass and timber entrance door.
The upper storeys predominantly feature plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the shops have plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped gable stacks.
Local climate
7-11 Nicolson Square, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 35, 37 Marshall Street, Edinburgh
- 31, 33 Marshall Street, Edinburgh
- Brass Founders' Pillar, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
- 16, 18, 20 Marshall Street, Edinburgh
- 27A Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
- Nicolson Square Methodist Chapel, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
- College Street United Presbyterian Church, 11A South College Street, Edinburgh
- 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
- 4 South College Street, Edinburgh
- 3 South College Street, Edinburgh