56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66A Dundas Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 November 1966. Tenement. 12 related planning applications.
56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66A Dundas Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- waiting-mantel-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95808, -3.20011
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, and 66A Dundas Street is a four-storey and basement terraced tenement with nine bays, built in the 19th century. The building features band courses between the basement and principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floor. It has projecting cills for the first and second floor windows, a continuous cornice at the second floor, and a cornice with a blocking course at the third floor. The entrance is accessed by ashlar steps and platts that overhang the basement.
On the principal elevation, there is a centrally located flush-panelled timber common stair door at the principal floor, which has a radial rectangular fanlight and is flanked by windows. There are also flush-panelled timber doors in the bays third from the left and right, with windows in the remaining bays at the principal floor. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with window guards in the bays at the third floor, except for the central bay.
The north elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (68-76 Dundas Street), and the south elevation also adjoins a separate terrace (44-86 Great King Street).
The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The ridge stacks are made of coursed rubble with broached ashlar quoins and are coped with circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and pineapple finials.
Local climate
56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 66A Dundas 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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