13 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966.
13 Hill Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- scattered-thatch-spindle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95352, -3.20253
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
11 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a pair of mirrored, three-storey and attic, three-bay classical former houses built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill. The exterior features droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings that have been cleaned. The ground floor has smaller windows with a cill course, and there is an eaves course above. The inner bays have broad tripartite doorpieces with fluted friezes and mutules, leading to flush-panelled doors. No 13 has a tripartite dormer, while No 11 has a single dormer.
The rear elevations are irregularly coursed rubble, featuring tripartite windows on the first floor, with a projecting bay at No 11 that has been extended in brick. The houses have timber sash and case windows with 12 panes. The skews are coped with ashlar, and there are rendered stacks topped with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
13 Hill 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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