76, 78 (1-7) North Junction Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
76, 78 (1-7) North Junction Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- buried-floor-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 76, 78 (1-7) North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HT
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 766
- Coordinates
- 55.97754, -3.17959
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th century building is a four-storey classical tenement located on a gusset site, featuring bowed outer bays on the front. It is constructed of cream stugged sandstone ashlar with polished dressings at the ground floor, and includes a base course, band courses above the ground and second floors, and a cornice.
The north-west (principal) elevation has five bays, with the centre bay displaying blind windows above the ground floor and the outer bays bowed. At the ground level, former shop doors and windows have been partially blocked to create domestic windows: there are four in the centre, two in the left bay, and one in the right bay, which also has a blocked doorway.
The west (North Junction Street) elevation is three bays wide, with a four-bay arrangement at the ground level featuring windows similar to those above in the outer bays. There is a pilastered and corniced doorpiece in the centre left bay with a modern door, and a secondary door opening in the centre right bay with an inserted modern door and surround. A shouldered wallhead stack is located to the left.
The north-east (Couper Street) elevation also has three bays, with a door to the left and windows similar to those on the ground level in the centre and right bays. The street name is painted on this elevation. The building features timber sash and case 12-pane windows, with one replacement window on North Junction Street. The roof is piended, covered with grey slates, and has coped rendered stacks.
Local climate
76, 78 (1-7) North Junction 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 — 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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