62, 63 And 64 South Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. 1 related planning application.
62, 63 And 64 South Bridge, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- heavy-rafter-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94749, -3.18577
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
53 to 59 South Bridge in Edinburgh is a row of Classical tenements, built around 1790, possibly by Robert Kay. The building has three storeys and an attic, consisting of five blocks with seven bays each, featuring shops on the ground floor, some of which have been altered. The outer blocks have pedimented end gables that face Drummond Street to the south and Infirmary Street to the north, with central lunettes in the pediments. The construction includes ashlar stonework at the front and rubble at the rear, with a band course and cill course at the second storey, and a cornice. The dormers are pedimented, piended, and canted. Some of the shopfronts are made of timber.
The shopfronts at Nos 53-59 are two-storey timber structures with panelled stallrisers, slim mullions, cornices, and fascias. The first storey windows have moulded timber architraves, with one window featuring fluted consoles and ball finials above.
There is a later attic storey added to 1 Drummond Street. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, with plate glass on the ground floor and some blank windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are tall, coped gable and ridge stacks, along with wallhead stacks at the rear.
Local climate
62, 63 And 64 South Bridge, 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 — 1 application
- 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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