88 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Office. 2 related planning applications.
88 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- late-basalt-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 88 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3BU
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95247, -3.20196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
88 George Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1775, which was refaced and had a shop added by the architectural firm Peddie & Kinnear in 1876. It is a three-storey and attic structure with three bays, featuring an office space and a shop at the ground level. The exterior is made of painted droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The shopfront includes a consoled cornice and a pierced parapet, with a door to the upper floors on the left and a modernised shop area on the right.
The upper floor windows are architraved and grouped together, with the centre window on the first floor featuring pilasters and a consoled pediment. All the upper windows are connected by a fluted frieze and cornice. The building has a modillioned cornice and a lead-covered blocking course, along with a bowed piend-roofed dormer on the right side.
The windows are timber sash and case with four panes. The building has ashlar coped skews, stone stacks that are rendered to the east, and is covered with grey slates. The interior of the ground floor has been thoroughly modernised.
Local climate
88 George 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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