16 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. 1 related planning application.
16 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- silver-transept-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Address
- 16 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95802, -3.18741
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
14 Forth Street in Edinburgh is a pair of terraced houses designed by Robert Burn in 1800. These two-storey buildings feature an attic and a basement, and they are constructed from sandstone ashlar. The exterior includes a cill band at the ground level, a band course between the floors, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The doorways are pilastered and corniced, with entrance platts that oversail the basement.
On the principal elevation, there are broad timber panelled doors with round-arched fanlights in the center bays. Above these doors, single windows are located, flanked by stone-mullioned tripartite windows on each floor. The attic features piended and canted tripartite dormers.
The windows are timber sash and case, predominantly with plate glass glazing, including a 12-pane window on the first floor of No 16. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are gable head stacks. Decorative cast-iron railings complete the exterior.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
16 Forth 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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