4 Smith's Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
4 Smith's Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 4 Smith's Place, Edinburgh, EH6 8NT
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 755
- Coordinates
- 55.96716, -3.17415
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Smith's Place is an early 19th century, three-storey over basement, four-bay classical town house located in Edinburgh. The building features a polished sandstone ashlar frontage, with droved stonework at the basement and first floor. There is a band course at the principal and first floor levels, with rusticated masonry between the bays and voussoirs over the openings. The eaves are adorned with a cornice and a blocking course above.
The entrance door is situated in the bay to the left of centre, and the first floor windows have cills and aprons. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, and there is a later four-panelled door with a radial fanlight above. A cast-iron downpipe is located to the outer right, and there are bars on the basement windows.
Worn stone steps lead up to the entrance door, which is complemented by original wrought iron handrails. The property is bordered by a coped rubble dwarf wall with cast-iron railings above, featuring fleur-de-lys finials and pineapple finials at the corners.
Local climate
4 Smith's Place, 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
- 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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