30 Queen Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. 3 related planning applications.
30 Queen Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dusted-corridor-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Address
- 30 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JX
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95445, -3.1999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 Queen Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1790, with later alterations. The facade was retained by Ian Burke Associates between 1972 and 1974. Originally, it was a symmetrical pair of three-storey and basement, three-bay terraced classical houses. The exterior features cleaned droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, and long and short quoins on the east side. The windows are regularly spaced, and at the center, there is a single set of steps leading to doorpieces that are architraved and corniced, complete with plate glass fanlights. The first-floor windows are taller and have a pair of continuous decorative cast-iron balconies.
At the rear, there is a modern brick office that extends back to the lane. The building has timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane windows on the ground and second floors, and 15-pane windows on the first floor. The outer party walls have ashlar coped mutual skews, with the west stack rendered and the east stack rebuilt in rubble. The roof is covered with grey slates.
The interior was completely rebuilt in 1972. The railings are replacement arrowhead cast-iron railings.
Local climate
30 Queen 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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