Radio Forth, 13, 15, 17 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
Radio Forth, 13, 15, 17 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- other-cobble-meadow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95768, -3.18727
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Radio Forth, located at 13, 15, and 17 Forth Street in Edinburgh, is a classical tenement building designed by Robert Burn in 1800, with some alterations made in the 20th century. This three-storey building, with a basement, features a palace-fronted design and is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with rustication on the ground floor. The outer two bays of the building are slightly advanced, and there are band courses above the ground floor and between the first and second floors, along with a cill band at the first floor and an eaves cornice. The central bays are adorned with rosetted capitals on panelled giant pilasters, and the entrance platts extend over the basement.
The principal elevation is organized in a pattern of 2-1-3-1-2 bays. The central entrance is round-arched and includes a tripartite doorpiece with a fanlight and sidelights. The flanking centre bays feature windows set in round-arched recesses. The remaining bays have regular fenestration, with smaller windows on the second floor.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane glazing on the main floors and 6-pane glazing on the second floor. The roof has been redesigned and is covered with grey slates, featuring rooflights and decorative cast-iron railings.
The interior was not seen in 1998, but it has undergone alterations to accommodate the radio station.
Local climate
Radio Forth, 13, 15, 17 Forth 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings