17 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Office. 1 related planning application.

17 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twisted-gargoyle-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
Office
Address
17 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DF
OS grid reference
NT 253 741
Coordinates
55.95454, -3.19667
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

17 Thistle Street in Edinburgh is a classical office building, originally constructed around 1780, with later additions including a rebuild in 1977. It is a four-storey, three-bay structure made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The entrance features a Roman Doric pilastered doorcase on the left, which includes a three-pane fanlight and a glazed inner door with a radiating fanlight. The third storey was added later. At the rear, there is a glass curtain wall with a dry-dashed strip.

The front of the building has timber sash and case windows with 12 panes. The interior has been significantly altered to accommodate modern office use.

Local climate

17 Thistle 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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