Hall, 71, 73, 75, 77 Duke Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Church hall.

Hall, 71, 73, 75, 77 Duke Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-sill-saffron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Type
Church hall
OS grid reference
NT 271 758
Coordinates
55.96981, -3.16883
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a church hall located at 71, 73, 75, and 77 Duke Street in Edinburgh, designed by J M Johnston in 1907. It is a two-storey structure with four bays and features a projecting front block that showcases a strong vertical emphasis typical of Glasgow-style architecture. The front is made of red sandstone with stugged ashlar, complemented by bands of cream polished ashlar. The design includes block ashlar mullions and transoms, along with shallow brackets supporting the cornices.

The southwest elevation, or front, has two central bays with plain, deep-set rectangular doorways. Above these, there are tall bipartite windows on the first floor that are recessed and feature tall cills. Each window is topped with a deep cornice that semi-circles over it, and there are plain railings forming a parapet that curves up to the outer bays. The outer bays extend beyond the eaves and have canted parapets with corner dies. They also contain tripartite windows set in recessed panels, with round-arched windows at the ground floor and segmental-arched windows on the first floor. The projecting mullions rise to meet a deep cornice at the eaves level.

The windows are fitted with small leaded panes, and the building has a flat roof with rectangular recessed dormers. The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1993.

Local climate

Hall, 71, 73, 75, 77 Duke 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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