5, 7, 9 East Preston Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Tenement.

5, 7, 9 East Preston Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
tall-barrel-mallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Tenement
Address
5, 7, 9 East Preston Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9QQ
OS grid reference
NT 265 724
Coordinates
55.9391, -3.17807
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5, 7, 9 East Preston Street is a later 19th century, four-storey, eight-bay classical tenement in Edinburgh. The building features cream sandstone ashlar that is rusticated at the ground level of the main elevation, while the side and rear are constructed of rubble. It includes a base course, a band course, and cill courses for the first and third floor windows, topped with a cornice.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there are doorways located to the left of the centre and in the penultimate bays, featuring panelled doors and plate glass fanlights. The fenestration is regular above these doorways and in the remaining bays, predominantly consisting of plate glass sash and case windows, with some original six-pane windows. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slate, featuring a coped wallhead and ridge stacks that are rendered to the east and west, with moulded cans. The street is bordered by replacement railings.

Local climate

5, 7, 9 East Preston 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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