79-79A Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
79-79A Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rood-foxglove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 79-79A Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2ER
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 738
- Coordinates
- 55.9522, -3.1971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
79-79A Princes Street is a late 18th century building that has undergone mid 19th and 20th century additions and alterations. It is a four-storey structure with an attic and features a three-bay shop front. The exterior is made of painted droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The ground and first floors have modern granite-faced shopfronts, with the first floor shopfront being earlier and featuring multi-pane glazing. The original second floor retains a former eaves cornice. The later third floor includes a pair of bipartite round-headed windows and a central blind panel, along with a bracketed cornice and a small coped parapet. The building has a later mansard roof with a pair of large multi-pane box dormers.
The second and third floors have timber sash and case plate glass windows, while the first and fourth floors feature casement windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has stone stacks.
Local climate
79-79A Princes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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