Warehouse, 46 Queen Charlotte Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Tenement.

Warehouse, 46 Queen Charlotte Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-hammer-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 272 762
Coordinates
55.97339, -3.16769
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a former warehouse located at 46 Queen Charlotte Street in Edinburgh, dating from around 1910. It is a three-storey and attic structure with a gabled three-bay design, showcasing stripped Edwardian baroque architectural style. The front and side gables are made of cream sandstone ashlar, while the rear and sides feature white glazed and variegated brick. There is a string course above the ground floor, sloping cills, and deeply chamfered reveals with arrises cut away in roll-moulded bands at the ground and first floors, which also have round-arched openings. The first and second floor windows are set in giant round-arched recessed panels.

On the north (front) elevation, the central pend opening is slightly recessed and features an iron lintel and cast-iron pal stones. Above this, there are tripartite windows on the first and second floors, with a giant panel rising to a semi-circular bipartite window in the gablehead. The gable is lugged, with kneelers and a shaped apex. The left bay contains single windows, while the right bay has a tall doorway and single windows above.

The west elevation is finished with white glazed bricks and has single windows. The east elevation is made of variegated brown brick and also features single windows in the outer left bay. The building has tilt and turn replacement windows that were formerly barred. The roof is steeply pitched with green slate and metal flashings, and includes two Velux rooflights. It has coped skews, moulded skewputts, and a moulded eaves gutter with gutterheads.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1993.

Local climate

Warehouse, 46 Queen Charlotte 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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