7 Young 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.
7 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- guardian-bailey-heath
- 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
- 7 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4HU
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 739
- Coordinates
- 55.9531, -3.20502
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Young Street in Edinburgh is an A-listed building, originally constructed by John Young shortly after 1779. This classical former house features two storeys, a half-sunk basement, and an attic, with a three-bay façade made of droved cream sandstone ashlar and polished dressings. The right bay has an architraved corniced doorpiece that leads to a deeply set door and fanlight, while there are two bowed dormers hung with slate.
The rear elevation is three storeys high with two bays, and it includes an attached two-storey, two-bay rubble range that houses garages at ground level, complete with a droved relieving arch.
The building has timber sash and case windows with 12 panes. There is a reduced stone stack on the west side and a rebuilt stack on the east side, with cement-coped skews and grey slate roofing.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
7 Young 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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