44-48 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
44-48 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- last-gravel-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 44-48 Grindlay Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AP
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94676, -3.20521
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
44-48 Grindlay Street is a four-storey, plain classical end of terrace tenement block designed by David MacGibbon between 1863 and 1864, featuring a shop on the ground floor. The building is constructed from cream painted ashlar and includes long and short quoins. There is a cill course at the third floor and an eaves cornice. The windows on the first and second floors have lugged and bracketed surrounds. The facade facing Lothian Road has three bays, with bipartite windows in the outer bays, while the Grindlay Street side has five bays that are regularly fenestrated. Notably, there is a slightly advanced chimney-breast with long and short quoins in the penultimate bay to the right. The windows are made of plate glass in timber sash and case style on Lothian Road, and feature four-pane glazing on Grindlay Street. The building also has scrolled stacks at the wallheads and corniced (rendered) stacks with circular cans.
Local climate
44-48 Grindlay 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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