94 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
94 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- endless-lantern-equinox
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 94 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2ER
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 738
- Coordinates
- 55.9519, -3.19909
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
94 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th century building with early 19th century and 20th century shopfronts. It is a three-storey structure with a half-sunk basement and attic, featuring five bays that reflect a former classical tenement style. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, although some stone has been replaced and the building was formerly painted.
At the ground level, there is a modern ashlar-framed shopfront with a simple cornice that extends across the two right bays. The remaining bays at ground level have a Roman Doric pilastrade filled with plate glass shop windows. There are steps in the center leading to an architraved door adorned with a carved frieze panel featuring an eagle. Open steps lead to the basement, which has a door and windows that correspond to the shop above. The upper floors have broader spaced windows in the two left bays, with taller windows on the first floor. There are three tripartite timber box-dormers on the roof.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building features ashlar coped skews, a rendered stack to the west, and a reduced stack to the east, all covered with grey slates.
Inside, much of the original detail remains despite the removal of the common stair and other staircases to create a single shop space. Original chimneybreasts, cornices, and shuttering are still present.
Local climate
94 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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