54, 56, 58 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
54, 56, 58 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- south-keystone-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 54, 56, 58 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EN
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95384, -3.1994
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
54, 56, and 58 Thistle Street is a later 19th century warehouse located on Thistle Street, with earlier warehouses from the late 18th century found in the southwest Thistle Street Lane. The building is constructed of cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings.
The Thistle Street elevation features a large four-storey, five-bay warehouse. The raised ground floor has a central entrance flanked by large bipartite windows in each bay, with a band course above. Each bay on the upper floors has windows with tabbed margins and a cill course at the second floor. The windows on the third floor are positioned just below the eaves course.
The rear elevation facing the lane has four bays and includes a covered bridge link to the premises on George Street. The building has four-pane timber windows and stone stacks.
In the southwest Thistle Street Lane, the principal warehouse is flanked by irregular two-storey ranges, with six bays to the east and twelve to the west.
The interiors were not seen in 1995.
Local climate
54, 56, 58 Thistle 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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