19 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Terraced houses.

19 Forth Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sombre-outpost-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 June 1966
Type
Terraced houses
Address
19 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LE
OS grid reference
NT 259 744
Coordinates
55.95774, -3.18695
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

19 Forth Street in Edinburgh is a building designed by Robert Burn in 1800. It features 15 bays arranged in a pattern of 6-3-3-3, and is two stories tall with a basement and attic. The mansard roof is present on Nos 21 and 23. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a cill band at the ground level, a band course between the ground and first floors, projecting cills at the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The doorways are pilastered and corniced, and the entrance platts extend over the basement.

On the principal north elevation, there are paired entrances at No 25, with the left doorway blocked and converted into a window. The timber panelled doors feature segmental fanlights. The fenestration is regular, with bays 7, 10, and 13 maintaining this pattern. Above, the windows continue the regular layout, with two tripartite canted dormers on Nos 25 and 27, three wall-head dormers on No 23, a full-width box dormer on No 21, and a bipartite canted dormer on No 19.

The windows are timber sash and case, predominantly with 12-pane glazing, while the attic features plate glass. The outer bays on the left at ground level have 18-pane windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ridge stacks and decorative cast-iron railings. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

19 Forth 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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