3 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Office. 14 related planning applications.

3 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh

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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Office
Address
3 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, EH2 2BD
OS grid reference
NT 256 740
Coordinates
55.95343, -3.19241
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh is a six-storey, three-bay office building designed by Burnet, Son and Dick between 1923 and 1925, with alterations made at the ground floor in 1968-1969. Originally an extension of Forsyth's, its design is adapted from the Princes Street style to fit a narrow site. The exterior features polished cream sandstone ashlar and plate glass windows at the ground floor, with marble Ionic columns on the first floor framed by a flat proscenium arch. There is a bronze balcony on the first floor with lamps. The second floor showcases channelled rustication with a consoled band above, and a central broken pedimented aedicule with a festoon below. The third and fourth floors are marked by giant Ionic columns. At the fifth floor, a projecting cornice leads to a balustraded parapet with term figures and urn finials at the corners.

The rear elevation is constructed of white glazed brick and includes a flying link to 30 Princes Street, which is listed separately. The sandstone ashlar on the rear is dated 1925 and features a broken pedimented aedicule. The interior has been modernized but retains the original frame.

Local climate

3 St Andrew Square, 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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