19-19A Albany Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1966. 5 related planning applications.
19-19A Albany Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- cold-corner-primrose
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1966
- Address
- 19-19A Albany Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3QN
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95695, -3.19175
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17 Albany Street is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey building with an attic and basement, forming part of a 15-bay classical terrace that consists of five three-bay houses, which step down to the east. The building is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone, featuring V-jointed rustication at the principal floor and droved ashlar at the basement. It has a base course, a band course between the basement and principal floor, another band course between the principal and first floor, and a cill course at the first floor. The first floor is topped with a mutuled cornice and a blocking course. The entrance features ashlar steps and platforms that overhang the basement.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a variety of six-panel and nine-panel timber doors set in tripartite doorpieces in the right bays at the principal floor, each with plate glass semicircular fanlights, except for No 15, which retains a radial semicircular fanlight and glazed sidelights. The remaining bays at the principal floor have windows, with regular fenestration on the upper floors and basement. The basement area is flagged.
The west elevation is adjacent to another terrace, which is listed separately (9, 9A, 9B Albany Street), as is the east elevation (21-23A Albany Street).
The building predominantly features plate glass timber sash and case windows and has grey slate roofs. There are various dormers, including a tripartite rectangular dormer and a slate-hung bow-fronted dormer at No 11, piended box dormers and polygonally piended canted dormers at Nos 13 and 15, a pair of polygonally piended canted dormers at No 17, and another pair of polygonally piended canted dormers with blinded sides at No 19. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered and polished ashlar ridge stacks with copings, and a variety of chimney cans. The skews are also coped.
The interiors were not seen in 1998, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings featuring spear-headed and urn finials.
Local climate
19-19A Albany 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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