27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Shop, tenement. 2 related planning applications.
27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- riven-jamb-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Shop, tenement
- Address
- 27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry, EH30 9PP
- OS grid reference
- NT 130 783
- Coordinates
- 55.99006, -3.39567
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
27, 28, and 29 High Street in South Queensferry is a mid-18th century building with 19th century alterations. It is two stories high with an attic and serves as a shop (currently empty) and a tenement. The first floor features painted square and snecked rubble with quoining, a base course, a cornice, and an eaves band course. The ground floor has chamfered moulded architraves, while the first floor displays raised and painted margins.
On the south elevation, the central doorway of No. 29 is framed by an emphatic Gibbsian surround, with a single window above on the first floor. To the right, there are two dummy doors and a shop window, and to the left, a door flanked by shop windows. The first floor has a regular five-bay arrangement of windows. There is a dormer window to the left, an attic window slightly left of center, and a canted dormer window to the right.
The west elevation features a blank gable where an adjoining building has been demolished. The north elevation includes a later extension with two piended roofs and four bays, maintaining regular fenestration. The east elevation is adjacent to another building.
The ground floor has modern glazing, while the first floor features single-pane sash and case windows and two-pane sash and case windows in the dormers. The roof is grey slated with straight stone skews to the south, large scroll skewputts to the front, and a crowstepped skew to the north. There is a short harled stack to the left, a tall rubble stack with a cornice to the right, and a tall harled stack at the rear.
The interior was not seen in 2000.
Local climate
27, 28, 29 High Street, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 2 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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