31, 33 Marshall Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

31, 33 Marshall Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
under-flint-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Tenement
Address
31, 33 Marshall Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9BJ
OS grid reference
NT 259 731
Coordinates
55.9459, -3.18659
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

31 and 33 Marshall Street in Edinburgh is a mid-18th century building with a Scots baronial section added in 1877. It is a four-storey and attic L-plan tenement featuring commercial premises at the ground level and a basement at the rear. The earlier section has a two-bay gable elevation facing east and a three-bay double-gable elevation to the south, with a narrow canted bay in the re-entrant angle. The original part is constructed of random rubble with dressed margins, while the later section from 1877 is made of squared and coursed rubble with ashlar margins and is painted at the ground level. Some windows have raised architraves, cornices, and strapwork pediments, while others feature consoled cornices at the ground level. The dormers are piended and finialled with pediments, some displaying the monogram DC, and one dated 1877 on the south side.

The eastern shop front is pilastered with a timber fascia, and there is an advanced pedimented doorway to the south with recessed panelled timber and glass entrance doors. The earlier section predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the later section has 2 over 4 pane timber sash and case windows. The shops have plate glass windows, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Gable stacks and raised skews with scroll skew-putts are also present.

The interior was partly seen in 2007, and the shops have been comprehensively modernised.

Local climate

31, 33 Marshall 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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