1, 3, 5 Forrest Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Tenement block.
1, 3, 5 Forrest Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- second-vault-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Tenement block
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 732
- Coordinates
- 55.9465, -3.1912
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 1, 3, and 5 Forrest Road in Edinburgh, dates from around 1845 and is a three-storey, four-bay angled tenement block with shops on the ground floor. It is situated on a narrow triangular site and features a bow shape facing Greyfriars Place. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar, which is painted at the ground floor. Key architectural details include a base course, a cornice at the ground floor, a cill course at the first floor, and a moulded eaves cornice.
The first-floor windows are set in corniced, bracketed, and lugged architraves, while the second-floor windows have lugged architraves. There is a timber panelled door in a moulded surround with an 8-pane fanlight located in the left bay. The central shop retains its original openings, with a door to the left and a window to the right, although it features modern glazing. The shop to the right has modern openings. At the rear, there is a gable and wallhead stack.
The building has a mix of 8-pane glazing and plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The corniced wallhead and ridge stacks are rendered at the front and have circular cans.
Local climate
1, 3, 5 Forrest Road, 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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