Cambridge Bar, 20 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Bar, former house. 3 related planning applications.
Cambridge Bar, 20 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lesser-window-azure
- 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
- Bar, former house
- Address
- Cambridge Bar, 20 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JB
- OS grid reference
- NT 247 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95272, -3.20597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cambridge Bar, located at 20 Young Street in Edinburgh, is a former house built by John Young shortly after 1779. This building features two storeys, a half-sunk basement, and an attic, with a classical design that includes four bays. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and has an eaves cornice.
The central right bay showcases an architraved doorpiece with a mutule cornice, leading to a deeply set door and fanlight, which is flanked by bracketed cast-iron lamps. At the rear, there is an extended two-storey mews block that has an infilled carriage arch, with the entrance to the upper floors located to the right.
The building has timber sash and case 12-pane windows, with plate glass on the first floor. The skews are ashlar coped, and the rendered stacks include one that is truncated on the west side, topped with grey slates. The interior, not seen in 1995, features a public bar at the ground level that extends to the rear.
Local climate
Cambridge Bar, 20 Young 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 — 3 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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