72-73 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Shop. 5 related planning applications.
72-73 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-tin-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 72-73 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2DF
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95238, -3.19604
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
72-73 Princes Street is a mid-19th century building with later additions, featuring a four-storey, two-bay structure with an attic used as a shop. The exterior is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar. The upper floors are framed by channelled pilasters and cornices. The ground floor has a modern shopfront. The first and second floors each have a single projecting timber bay window with quadrant ends, and the central section is bipartite with Corinthian pilasters. The third floor contains a pair of architraved bipartite windows, and the cornice and panelled parapet are interrupted by a pair of wallhead dormers that have segmental-headed pediments. The parapet is topped with urn finials. The building has UPVC tilt and turn windows and a mansard roof covered in grey slates. Inside, the ground floor is occupied by modern retail premises.
Local climate
72-73 Princes 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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