118 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Tenement. 18 related planning applications.
118 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- nether-merlon-ridge
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 118 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95112, -3.20316
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
118 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th century former classical tenement with significant additions made in 1983. This three-storey building with an attic is located on a corner site and features a glazed timber front that extends at the ground and first floors. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar, and the timber facade has swept corners and a cast-iron balustrade.
The original second floor has five bays facing Princes Street, with the left bay being recessed, which was formerly a common stair. The building includes long and short angle quoins, a moulded eaves cornice that is bracketed to the left bay, and a broad swept slate-hung dormer with a canted window on the right, along with a pair of single piend-roofed dormers on the left. The gable facing Castle Street has three bays and features a single attic window, with a small blank wing to the north.
The upper floors are adorned with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The building has ashlar coped skews and an ashlar stack to the east, with a small removed stack to the west that has tiny replacements, all covered with grey slates.
The interior has been modernized for commercial use and extends into No 4 Castle Street, which is listed separately.
Local climate
118 Princes 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 — 18 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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