18-20 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Office. 8 related planning applications.
18-20 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- odd-rubble-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 18-20 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PF
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95343, -3.19625
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18-20 George Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with a double attic, designed in the French Renaissance style by W Hamilton Beattie in 1879. It was remodelled internally and extended at the rear by Robert Hurd and Partners in 1978. The building is constructed from cream sandstone ashlar and features a projecting ground floor with panelled pilasters and a consoled cornice.
On the right side, there is a three-bay shopfront that includes a segmental-pedimented door with decorative console brackets and two-leaf bronze doors set in elaborately moulded architraves. To the left, a single bay incorporates the entrance, with plate glass windows. The upper floors feature a canted pilastered window at the centre, with the outer bays slightly advanced and flanked by paired pilasters. Each floor has an entablature, and the centre bay is topped with a pediment.
The first attic storey showcases paired arched windows framed by pilasters and aedicules, mirroring the centre section at the second storey. The first floor has cast-iron mullions and transoms, while the upper floors are fitted with four-pane timber sash and case windows, also with iron mullions. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks. The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
18-20 George 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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