Ywca Women's Hostel, 7, 8, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Double houseblock.

Ywca Women's Hostel, 7, 8, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
scattered-barrel-gorse
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Double houseblock
Address
Ywca Women's Hostel, 7, 8, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 5NS
OS grid reference
NT 250 751
Coordinates
55.96384, -3.20285
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The YWCA Women's Hostel, located at 7 and 8 Inverleith Terrace in Edinburgh, is a double house block built around 1870 to 1880. It has two storeys with a basement and a modern attic. The façade features two windows situated between two canted bays. The basement is droved, and there are spear-headed railings along the property. The ground floor is channelled, and the first floor has architraves. A heavy modern continuous slate-hung dormer extends over both houses. The door at number 8 has been closed and converted into a window.

Local climate

Ywca Women's Hostel, 7, 8, Inverleith Terrace, 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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