36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement block.
36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- empty-parapet-saffron
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 36 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2EL
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94678, -3.20277
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
36 Castle Terrace in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic tenement block designed by Sir James Gowans between 1868 and 1870. The building features a mansard roof and has a distinctive appearance, projecting from the street line on the right. It is constructed of polished ashlar, which has been painted at the ground level.
The façade includes string courses that separate the floors and stone-bracketed eaves. The windows are adorned with decorative bracketed surrounds, and the first-floor windows have serrated Moorish lintels. The second-floor windows push up against the bracketed eaves below the dormers. The steeply-pitched gabled dormers have pentagonal windows and stone-bracketed eaves, with the central dormer displaying the date 1868.
The entrance is located in the centre bay and features a modern glazed two-leaf timber door set within a round-arched surround that has serrated decoration in the spandrels. The centre bay also includes tripartite windows with decorative stone mullions on the first and second floors, as well as at the ground level in the flanking bays.
The building has plate glass in timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. Additional details include a moulded stone ridge, fluted ashlar stalks with scalloped, bracketed cornices, and decorative octagonal cans with serrated tops.
Local climate
36 Castle Terrace, 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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