19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 West Maitland Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 October 1964. 4 related planning applications.

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 West Maitland Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
guardian-corridor-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 October 1964
Address
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 West Maitland Street, Edinburgh, EH12 5EA
OS grid reference
NT 241 733
Coordinates
55.94687, -3.21615
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28, 29, 30 West Maitland Street is a four-storey, 24-bay tenement block built in 1864 by John Lessels. The building features an astylar design with shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Architectural details include a dentilled cornice and blocking course at the advanced ground floor, a corniced cill course at the third floor, and a cornice and blocking course above.

The front elevation has timber doors with rectangular fanlights between modern shop fronts on the ground floor, while the upper floors have a regular arrangement of windows. The predominant window style is four-pane timber sash and case glazing, although the shopfronts feature modern glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped rendered and sandstone ashlar mutual stacks along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 West Maitland 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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