22 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. Terraced tenement.

22 Forth Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
swift-crypt-ivory
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
Terraced tenement
Address
22 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH
OS grid reference
NT 259 745
Coordinates
55.95802, -3.18698
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

22 Forth Street in Edinburgh is a terraced tenement building designed by Robert Burn in 1800. It is three stories high with a mansard attic and a basement, constructed from droved sandstone ashlar. The building features a base course, a band course between the floors, a blocking course, and projecting cills. Above No 22, there is a blind ashlar balustrade with panelled tablets on the mansard roof. The entrance has pilastered and pedimented doorpieces with decorative capitals and a rosette motif, and the entrance platts extend over the basement.

On the principal (south) elevation, there are broad tripartite doorpieces with timber panelled doors and segmental-arched fanlights in the first and fourth bays. The remaining bays have windows, and there is regular fenestration above, featuring three dormer windows in the mansard roof, including a piended and canted tripartite dormer and a roof light for No 22.

The building has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, grey slate roofing, stone skews, and a gablehead stack with terracotta cans. Decorative cast-iron railings are also present. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

22 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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