137-138 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 6 related planning applications.

137-138 Princes Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
seventh-sandstone-lichen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
137-138 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4BL
OS grid reference
NT 247 737
Coordinates
55.95063, -3.20672
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

137-138 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1790. The facade was dismantled and re-erected by Morris and Steedman in 1976. It is a three-storey and attic structure with four bays, representing the surviving half of a former classical tenement, which now serves as the facade for a fast food restaurant. The exterior features droved ashlar sandstone and has a set-back former common stair bay to the right, along with an eaves cornice. The ground floor has a modern shopfront, while a large pedimented tripartite dormer was added in 1976.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has ashlar coped skews and rebuilt stone stacks, topped with grey slates. The interior is modern.

Local climate

137-138 Princes 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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