54 George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. 4 related planning applications.
54 George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grey-marble-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Address
- 54 George Iv Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94813, -3.19162
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49, 50, and 51 George IV Bridge is a tenement block built in 1861 by Henry Hardy of Smith and Hardy Partners. This three-storey building with an attic faces George IV Bridge and features shops on the ground floor. The structure drops seven storeys towards Cowgate and Merchant Street at the rear. It is constructed from polished ashlar and has stop-moulded arrises, a cornice, and a blocking course. The north and south elevations have broad, shouldered wall-head gables, with a round-arched window at the centre, flanked by stacks that are incorporated into the wall-head and bracketed beneath the cornice. The ground floor accommodates commercial premises facing Cowgate and Merchant Street.
The building predominantly features four-paned glazing in timber sash and case windows with horns. It has a slate roof, end and rear wall-head stacks, and coped skews.
Local climate
54 George Iv Bridge, 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 — 4 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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