46 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1965. 4 related planning applications.
46 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-span-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1965
- Address
- 46 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5AL
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 752
- Coordinates
- 55.96497, -3.18014
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
48 Pilrig Street in Edinburgh is a pair of mirrored classical houses built in 1823. They are two stories tall with a basement and attic, featuring six bays. The front is made of sandstone ashlar, while the side and rear elevations are constructed from rubble. The design includes a base course, a cill course with corniced and architraved windows on the ground floor, a cill band on the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course with central raised tablets. Each house has ashlar steps and entrance platts that extend over the basement.
The principal elevation showcases Ionic pilastered and corniced doorpieces with fanlights in the center bays, flanked by windows in the remaining bays. Above, there is regular fenestration, with piended and canted tripartite dormers on the left and right, as well as roof lights.
The south gable elevation has windows on both the ground and first floors, with two additional windows in the attic. The north gable elevation features visible raised flues and blocked openings. The rear elevation is three stories high, with the taller wallhead finishing at the roof. It has four bays, with the right bays advanced, regularly fenestrated, and smaller windows in the attic.
The houses have timber sash and case windows, with plate glass glazing on No 46 and 12-pane windows on No 48. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and there are stone skews and gablehead stacks, with a stack on the east pitch. Later cast-iron railings are also present.
The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls consist of low rubble walls topped with ashlar saddleback copes.
Local climate
46 Pilrig 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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