63 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. House. 11 related planning applications.

63 George Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
riven-corner-plum
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 January 1966
Type
House
Address
63 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JG
OS grid reference
NT 251 740
Coordinates
55.95342, -3.19981
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building at 63 George Street in Edinburgh dates from around 1775 and has undergone later alterations. It is a three-storey and attic former classical house with a shop added at the ground level. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar. The modern shopfront features a plain polished ashlar frame that includes an entrance to the upper floors on the left side. There is a flag pole at the first floor. On the second floor, the central window is blind, and there are small decorative cast-iron balconies flanking the windows. The building also has a pair of later 19th century canted piend-roofed dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews, a rendered stack on the east side, and is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.

Local climate

63 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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