36-38 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. 2 related planning applications.
36-38 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- third-groin-linden
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Address
- 36-38 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EY
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95321, -3.20086
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
71 George Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic Baroque office building designed by Thomas Purves Marwick in 1908, with a refaced ground floor. It is situated on a corner site and features a three-bay, five-stage corner tower. The exterior is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar. The canted corner has cherub consoles at the third floor that support a cornice, leading up to an octagonal fifth storey topped with a copper cupola. The ground floor has been rebuilt as a plate glass shopfront with polished pink granite facings beneath the original cornice.
The first-floor windows are keystoned and adorned with a pulvinated frieze and cornice, while the second-floor windows also have keystones and broken cornices. The third-floor windows feature splayed reveals and arched heads that connect piers with elaborate armorial cartouches, and there is a mutulated cornice above. The parapet is interrupted by pedimented attic windows.
On the George Street elevation, there are three bays to the left of the tower, and on the Frederick Street elevation, three bays to the right of the tower, with an additional outer bay that has a splayed oriel above the ground floor, finishing at the attic with a segmental-pedimented tripartite window. The building has timber casement windows, a pitched roof with gables to the west and north, ashlar coped skews, corniced ashlar stacks, and grey slates. The interior has been modernised at the ground floor.
Local climate
36-38 Frederick 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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