12, 14, 16 Hope Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
12, 14, 16 Hope Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sombre-banister-azure
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 12, 14, 16 Hope Street, Edinburgh, EH2 5DB
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 737
- Coordinates
- 55.9508, -3.20876
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12, 14, and 16 Hope Street is a classical tenement building dating from around 1790. It is three storeys high with an attic and basement, featuring seven bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The ground floor has V-jointed rustication, and there is an eaves cornice. The central common stair bay is slightly recessed and is flanked by main door flats that have round-headed doorways with radiating timber fanlights in the inner bays. The windows on the ground floor to the right (No 16) are arched. The building has piend-roofed dormers, with a bipartite dormer to the left and a canted pair to the right.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with multi-pane windows on the ground floor to the right. The building features ashlar coped skews, grey slate roofing, and a rendered stack to the south, with an ashlar stack to the north.
Inside, the property is all one office, with an archway from the hall to the reception area at No 16, which includes a glazed screen leading to the stair.
The property is also adorned with spearhead cast-iron railings.
Local climate
12, 14, 16 Hope 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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