18 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. House.
18 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- roaming-wall-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95798, -3.18726
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18 Forth Street is a classical terraced house in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Burn in 1800. It is two stories high with a mansard attic and a basement, featuring three bays and constructed from droved sandstone ashlar. The house has projecting cills, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The entrance is marked by a columned and corniced doorpiece, with entrance platts that overhang the basement.
On the principal elevation, there is a timber panelled door with a fanlight to the left, and windows in the remaining bays. The upper section has regular fenestration, including mansard dormer windows in the roof. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Decorative cast-iron railings add to the exterior features.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
18 Forth 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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