84 Constitution Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Town house, warehouse. 4 related planning applications.

84 Constitution Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Town house, warehouse
Address
84 Constitution Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6RP
OS grid reference
NT 272 762
Coordinates
55.97399, -3.16795
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

84 Constitution Street is an early 19th century town house with a small warehouse at the rear, built by George Simpson in 1894. The building is three stories high with an attic and features a three-bay façade. It is constructed from cream sandstone, with a polished ashlar ground floor that is in poor condition, stugged ashlar above, and coursed rubble with droved dressings on the rear and sides.

The front elevation has a columned doorpiece in the left bay, which includes a frieze, cornice, and blocking course, along with a panelled door and an original fanlight featuring radial astragals. The windows on the ground floor are architraved, and there is a band course above the ground floor, a moulded cill course on the first floor, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a blocking course. The fenestration is regular, although the second floor is blinded in the center. A canted dormer with a piended roof is located in the center.

On the rear elevation, there are single windows that are barred at the ground floor, and a single-storey piend-roofed outhouse is situated to the left.

The north and south elevations are adjoining neighboring buildings, both gabled with coped apex stacks.

The warehouse is a two-storey, four-bay structure made of squared and snecked stugged rubble. It features a large opening at the ground floor with sliding timber doors and a doorway at the first floor that has a triangular dormer head and a timber hoist.

The building includes timber sash and case windows with 12-pane and plate glass glazing, a slate roof with lead flashings, and two apex stacks.

The front of the property is bordered by a low boundary wall with curved coping and later railings.

Local climate

84 Constitution 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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