30-34 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. 2 related planning applications.
30-34 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ragged-courtyard-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Address
- 30-34 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94995, -3.18333
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-7 Holyrood Road in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic row of tenements built in 1869 by D Cousins and J Lessels. This multi-gabled, crowstepped Scots Baronial style building features a seven-bay facade facing Boyd's Entry and a six-bay facade on Holyrood Road, with shops on the ground floor and a single-storey, balustraded shop at No 7 Holyrood Road. The structure is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar margins, and includes a cill course at Nos 58-62 and a cornice at the second storey. The windows are a mix of segmental-arched and rectangular openings, some with cornices, and there are pedimented dormers, some featuring apex stacks. A canted corner bay at Cowgate is adorned with turrets topped with pepperpot roofs, while a canted, corbelled corner at Boyd's Entry displays a painted bull figurehead.
The shopfronts primarily feature stone pilasters and fascias, with some showcasing decorative metal stallrisers. No 52 has glass brick stallrisers and canopies, and the shops have recessed entrances with two-leaf timber storm doors. The flats above typically have four and six-pane timber entrance doors.
The rear elevation includes a projecting, flat-roofed ground storey with common drying greens above, enclosed by metal railings. The upper storeys predominantly feature four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has plate glass windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes gable stacks, along with cast iron rainwater goods.
To the east, there is a boundary wall made of coped rubble with lower sections topped by metal railings, and gatepiers that have pyramidal caps.
Local climate
30-34 St Mary's 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 — 2 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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