14, 15, 16 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

14, 15, 16 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lunar-entrance-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
Address
14, 15, 16 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN
OS grid reference
NT 259 728
Coordinates
55.94257, -3.18681
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

14, 15, 16 Buccleuch Place is a four-storey tenement building with a dormered attic and basement, constructed between 1783 and 1785. It features a symmetrical seven-bay façade, with the central three bays slightly projecting. The building is made from ashlar sandstone, with long and short quoined corners, while the rear elevation is built from rubble sandstone. The centre bay has blind windows. The entrance doors of Nos 14 and 16 are adorned with Roman Doric pilastered and corniced doorpieces, and there are entrance platts that extend over the basement. At the rear, there is an advanced gabled wing that was formerly the George Square Assembly Rooms, which were converted into housing in 2015. The rear elevation also includes some decorative cast iron window boxes.

The windows are mainly 12-pane glazing set in sash and case timber frames. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are wide, corniced ridge and gable stacks topped with cylindrical cans. The property is enclosed by low coped walls with cast iron railings.

Local climate

14, 15, 16 Buccleuch Place, 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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