5, 7, Victoria Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement.
5, 7, Victoria Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stark-sandstone-pigeon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 5, 7, Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2EX
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94847, -3.19391
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 and 7 Victoria Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey, three-bay tenement building designed by George Smith in 1855, featuring a bar and restaurant on the ground floor. The exterior is constructed of coursed cream ashlar, which is painted at the ground level, while the rear is made of squared and snecked rubble. The building has a base course and a consoled cornice at the ground floor, along with cill bands on the first and second floors. The windows are set in raised surrounds, with bracketed cills on the second floor. The roof features pedimented dormers that break the eaves.
The entrance to the flats on the right consists of a timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight, while the bar entrance on the left has a two-leaf timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight, flanked by windows. The building's windows are fitted with 12-pane lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and features crowstepped skews, along with corniced ashlar stacks topped with circular cans.
Local climate
5, 7, Victoria 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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