2, 3, 4 North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Tenement. 8 related planning applications.
2, 3, 4 North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- noble-chalk-wagtail
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 2, 3, 4 North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4HR
- OS grid reference
- NT 247 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95286, -3.20674
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 2, 3, and 4 North Charlotte Street in Edinburgh, dates back to around 1790 and is a three-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring nine bays in a classical style. It is constructed from broached cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The ground floor exhibits V-jointed rustication, while there is a cill course at the first floor and an eaves cornice. The ground and first floors slightly step up towards the right of the central bay, which has a recessed downpipe at this junction. The central bay, which originally had a common stair door, is now blocked and converted into a window, with the steps removed.
The third bay from the right features a tripartite arched doorpiece with a radiating metal fanlight, while the fourth bay from the left has a pilastered corniced tripartite doorpiece with a fluted frieze and a panelled door. The right block includes small iron balconies on the second floor and a pair of piend-roofed canted dormers, while the left block also has a pair of piend-roofed dormers.
The rear elevation is made of coursed rubble and includes Venetian windows at ground level, along with closet towers. The building has timber sash and case 12-pane windows, ashlar coped skews, coped stone stacks, and is topped with grey slates.
The interior was not seen in 1995. Additionally, there are cast-iron spearhead railings and wrought-iron lamp standards at No 2.
Local climate
2, 3, 4 North Charlotte 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 — 8 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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