21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Tenement. 13 related planning applications.

21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
nether-cloister-claret
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
Tenement
Address
21-27 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2DL
OS grid reference
NT 253 739
Coordinates
55.95266, -3.19647
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

21-27 Hanover Street is a former classical tenement built between 1784 and 1790, with some alterations made at the ground level. The building is three stories high with an attic and features five bays. It is constructed of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The right bay is broader and has an arched doorpiece with a keystone, which contains a modern door leading to a common stair. The building has an eaves cornice and two mid-19th century dormers with piend roofs, one of which is larger and tripartite. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and one 12-pane window remains. The roof is covered with grey slates. The interior has modern shops, while the flats were not seen during the inspection in 1995.

Local climate

21-27 Hanover 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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