1, 3, 5, 7 Spittal Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Commercial block. 2 related planning applications.
1, 3, 5, 7 Spittal Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sunken-doorway-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Commercial block
- Address
- 1, 3, 5, 7 Spittal Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DY
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94599, -3.20392
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1, 3, 5, and 7 Spittal Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1850. It is a four-storey classical structure with a bowed design and an acute-angled corner. The fourth storey serves as a wallhead attic. The building features two bays facing Bread Street and four bays along Spittal Street, with a five-bay recessed quadrant block in between. The ground floor accommodates shops and a public house, although there is a modern shop front at Bread Street.
The exterior is made of droved ashlar stone, with a base course and a broad cornice above the second floor, as well as an eaves cornice. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, with projecting cills on the first and second floors and recessed aprons on the first floor. At No 5 Spittal Street, there is a timber panelled door with a small-pane glazed fanlight leading to the flats. Additionally, the original carved street sign for Spittal Street remains intact.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and there are corniced rendered stacks with circular cans on the roof.
Local climate
1, 3, 5, 7 Spittal 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
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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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