43 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
43 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- broken-bastion-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 43 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95367, -3.19853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
43 George Street in Edinburgh is a former house built around 1775, which was refaced and had an extra storey added by Thomas Hamilton in 1829. Further alterations were made in 1872 and by A W MacNaughton in 1897. The building is a 4-storey and attic structure with 3 bays, designed in a classical style and constructed from polished cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor features a pedimented fluted Corinthian porch on the left and a single porch on the right, both supporting an entablature with a solid parapet. Behind this, there is a 4-bay pilastered arcade that includes a 3-bay shop and an entrance to the upper floors.
On the first floor, there is a broad pedimented canted window flanked by Roman Doric columns, with a tripartite window in the centre. The second-floor windows have a moulded cill course and architraves, topped by a dentilled cornice. The third floor features windows set in square recesses, with an additional cornice and blocking course. The roof has a pair of timber box dormers, with a bipartite dormer on the left and a tripartite dormer on the right.
The elevation facing the lane is a 3-storey structure with a raised basement, built from coursed rubble and featuring 3 bays. The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, ashlar coped skews, corniced stone stacks, and is covered with grey slates. A very fine wrought-iron lamp bracket is located by the door.
Inside, there is a top-lit saloon at the rear.
Local climate
43 George 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
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- 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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