34 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. 1 related planning application.

34 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
tall-flagstone-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 January 1966
Address
34 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JR
OS grid reference
NT 251 739
Coordinates
55.9527, -3.20051
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

74 George Street in Edinburgh is a former classical tenement building dating from around 1775, with later alterations. It is a three-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring ten bays arranged in a 4-1-5 pattern, and is situated on a corner site with a shop built out at the ground level. The exterior is constructed of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and it has long and short quoins at the corner.

On the George Street elevation, there is a common stair door at the center, with five bays to the right that include cornices and architraves at the ground level. The central section has a tripartite doorpiece featuring a fluted frieze and a mutule cornice, topped by an early 20th-century mansard roof that includes three large corniced bipartite dormers. The four bays to the left have a modern shop at the ground level, and there is a plain eaves cornice.

The Frederick Street elevation consists of five bays, with a gable over the four right bays and a modern shop at the ground level.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has rendered brick stacks, a rebuilt stone mutual stack to the west, ashlar coped skews, and is covered with grey slates.

The interior was not seen in 1995. The property features cast-iron barley twist railings.

Local climate

34 Frederick 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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