27, 29, 31, 33 Broughton Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Tenement. 10 related planning applications.

27, 29, 31, 33 Broughton Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lunar-minaret-vale
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
Type
Tenement
Address
27, 29, 31, 33 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3JU
OS grid reference
NT 259 744
Coordinates
55.95717, -3.18791
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

27, 29, 31, and 33 Broughton Street is a terraced tenement building designed by Robert Burn in 1809. It is three stories high, with a basement and attic, and features six bays. The ground floor includes shops, with a pend entrance located to the left. The building is constructed from droved sandstone ashlar and includes decorative elements such as a band course, a cill band at the first floor, a band course between the first and second floors, projecting cills at the second floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course.

On the principal elevation, there are two 19th-century shop fronts on the right side of the ground floor, each featuring two-leaf panelled doors, flanking single windows, and a shared mutule cornice, with recessed steps leading to the inner doors. The pend entrance is slightly recessed in the outer left bay of the ground floor. To the left of center at the ground level, there is a timber door set in a round-arched recess, with ashlar steps that oversail the basement and are accompanied by railings. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with stone-mullioned tripartite windows at the first and second floors in the pend bay to the left. The attic features three box dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring four and twelve-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ridge stacks with terracotta cans. Iron railings are present at the entrance steps. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

27, 29, 31, 33 Broughton 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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