9 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 April 1986. Retail and residential tenement.
9 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sunken-parapet-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1986
- Type
- Retail and residential tenement
- Address
- 9 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NB
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 736
- Coordinates
- 55.9501, -3.18597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
9 Blackfriars Street in Edinburgh is a B-listed building designed by Robert Morham between 1871 and 1873, adapting a design by David Cousin and John Lessels. This four-storey, two-bay tenement serves both retail and residential purposes and features an unusual double-height, twin-gabled attic. It is situated on sloping ground and is part of a cohesive row on the east side of Blackfriars Street. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, and it has chamfered, long and short window margins.
The ground floor includes a shop with five shallow segmental-arched openings, and there is a timber door located in the far left bay. A heavy moulded cill course is present at the attic level. The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey Scottish slate, and there are broad coped ashlar stacks with clay cans. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
9 Blackfriars 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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