7, 9, 11 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. 2 related planning applications.
7, 9, 11 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ruined-transept-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Address
- 7, 9, 11 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TA
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95038, -3.18426
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 and 5 St Mary's Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th-century tenement building that is symmetrical, featuring five storeys and seven bays. The ground floor includes commercial premises and a public house. The building is located on a sloping site and has a wide central stairwell bay with a rebuilt wallhead chimney. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with ashlar margins, raised quoins, and cills, and has a partial base course.
The central entrance to the close is a six-panel timber door. To the left, there are two shops with timber and glass entrance doors topped by rectangular fanlights. On the right, the public house frontage, designed in 1891 by R Thornton-Sheills & Thomson, features segmental-arched openings. The windows have panelled stallrisers and slender barley-sugar twist mullions, along with decorative carved panels, a timber fascia, and a dentilled cornice. The spandrels also have decorative carving, and there are eight-panel timber entrance doors with carved Bacchus head consoles.
The upper floors predominantly feature twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has plate glass windows. The building has gable stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
7, 9, 11 St Mary's 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 — 2 applications
- 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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