Carron House, 114, 116 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. House. 4 related planning applications.
Carron House, 114, 116 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- heavy-balcony-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carron House, 114, 116 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4LH
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 738
- Coordinates
- 55.9521, -3.20438
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carron House, located at 114 and 116 George Street in Edinburgh, is a classical office building designed by the Hugh Martin Partnership in 1992. It features a three-storey structure with a basement and attic, showcasing three-bay classical house facades made of polished cream sandstone ashlar.
At No 114, which is paired with No 112, there is an architraved and corniced doorpiece that includes a panelled door and a radiating fanlight. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a pair of canted piend-roofed dormers.
No 116 displays channelled rustication at the ground level, with a corniced doorpiece to the right that also has a panelled door and a radiating fanlight, flanked by stop-fluted pilasters. It features a mutuled eaves cornice and a pair of canted piend-roofed dormers as well.
Both buildings have 12-pane timber sash and case windows, ashlar coped skews, stone stacks, and grey slate roofs. The interior consists of modern office spaces with rooms at the front. Additionally, there are modern iron railings and lamp standards outside the building.
Local climate
Carron House, 114, 116 George 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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