26-28 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Office.
26-28 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dusk-rubble-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95402, -3.19845
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26-28 Thistle Street is an early 19th century building that has undergone subsequent additions and alterations. It features four storeys and an attic, with a three-bay design situated on a corner site. The exterior is constructed from coursed cream sandstone rubble, with red ashlar at the ground level. At the ground floor, there is a corniced architraved door flanked by tripartite windows. The third floor and mansard attic are later additions, creating a five-bay appearance. The original rubble gable end was two bays, but an extra storey and an additional bay were added to the south side. The rear of the building also has a three-storey and attic three-bay design.
The windows are timber sash and case, featuring 12 panes each. The building has ashlar coped skews, grey slate roofing, and rubble stacks.
The interior has been modernized for office use.
Local climate
26-28 Thistle 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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