24 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
24 Hill Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dark-solder-hawthorn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95323, -3.20304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a former house built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill. This three-storey and attic building features a classical design and is located on a corner site where the ground slopes to the north. The exterior is made of droved cream ashlar sandstone, which has been painted black, with polished dressings. The ground floor has smaller windows and includes a cill course, as well as an eaves course. To the left bay, there is a Roman Doric pilastered and corniced tripartite doorpiece with a panelled door. The building also has a pair of elegant slate-hung piend-roofed bowed dormers.
The gable wall is constructed of broad coursed rubble and has two bays, with three windows and a door on the ground floor, while the first floor is blank. The rear elevation is irregular and features rubble construction, with two storeys and an attic, as well as a projecting porch or closet at ground level to the right.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes for the main windows and 20 panes for the dormers. The building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, which have been rebuilt on the west side and rendered on the east side, topped with grey slates.
Inside, the first floor contains a full-width former drawing room that features a recess and plaster panelled walls.
Local climate
24 Hill 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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- 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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