Duke Of Wellington Statue, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Monument.

Duke Of Wellington Statue, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dim-lintel-storm
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 January 1966
Type
Monument
Address
Duke Of Wellington Statue, General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YT
OS grid reference
NT 258 740
Coordinates
55.95347, -3.18918
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Duke of Wellington Statue, located at General Register House on Princes Street in Edinburgh, was created by architects David Bryce and James Gowans between 1849 and 1852. The equestrian statue itself, designed by Sir John Steell, was completed in 1848. It features a bronze statue of the Duke in a heroic pose, with the horse rearing up on its hind legs, supported solely by its tail, and stands on a plinth made of red Aberdeen granite.

Local climate

Duke Of Wellington Statue, General Register House, Princes 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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