Bus Depot, Annandale Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 September 1988. Garage. 5 related planning applications.

Bus Depot, Annandale Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
swift-granite-kestrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 September 1988
Type
Garage
Address
Bus Depot, Annandale Street, Edinburgh, EH7 4AZ
OS grid reference
NT 259 748
Coordinates
55.96113, -3.18811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bus Depot on Annandale Street in Edinburgh was designed by G M Holmes Douglas in 1922 for the Edinburgh Exhibition Association and was converted in 1934 by E J MacRae for its current use as a bus station. The building features a large, symmetrical classical front made of red brick with red ashlar dressings. It has a wide central section topped with a massive glazed dome, and the ends of the building are also shallowly advanced. There are large rectangular vehicle openings, which are likely the work of MacRae, located in the intermediate bays. The eaves are blocked, and there is a deep parapet that conceals the roof. The rear wall has ten roof gables, with roofs covered in asbestos and glass, supported by steel stanchions.

Local climate

Bus Depot, Annandale 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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