25 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1965. House. 1 related planning application.

25 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
haunted-tower-moon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1965
Type
House
Address
25 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, EH2 1AF
OS grid reference
NT 255 742
Coordinates
55.95508, -3.19356
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh is a former house designed by William Chambers between 1770 and 1772, with the facade retained in 1964. The building has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, featuring a five-bay classical design. The exterior is rendered to resemble ashlar stone, with ashlar dressings. It includes moulded architraves and is flanked by channelled pilaster strips. An Ionic porch is located at the outer right bay, supporting a company eagle. There are also a pair of modern canted timber flat-roofed dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with multiple panes. The roof features lead-coped mutual skews, dressed stone mutual stacks, and grey slates.

The rear elevation is microtiled and also three storeys high. The interior has been modernized for office use and was rebuilt in 1964. The property is enclosed by plain modern iron railings.

Local climate

25 St Andrew Square, 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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