49 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1966. Terraced house.
49 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stranded-render-brook
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1966
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 49 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95679, -3.20041
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49 Northumberland Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century terraced house designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald, with an attic added around 1900. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and features three bays. It is constructed from polished ashlar sandstone, with V-jointed rustication at the basement. There is a base course and band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal floor and the first floor. A cill course is present at the first floor, along with a mutuled cornice and blocking course.
On the south elevation, there is a round-arched doorpiece in the left bay at the principal floor, which includes a panelled timber door and a radial semicircular fanlight. The remaining bays have regular fenestration at the principal floor, first floor, and basement. The east and west elevations are part of adjoining terraces, which are listed separately.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is a grey slate M-roof with a long 8-light box dormer. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with a rendered ridge stack that is coped and features circular cans.
The interiors have not been seen since 1997. The property also includes ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials. There are cast-iron lamps mounted on the railings, featuring glass globes.
Local climate
49 Northumberland 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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