21, 22, 23 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. House. 5 related planning applications.
21, 22, 23 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-tower-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- 21, 22, 23 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AN
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 739
- Coordinates
- 55.9532, -3.19102
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21, 22, and 23 Princes Street in Edinburgh are early 19th-century buildings with later additions from the 19th century. They are four stories tall with an attic and have five bays. The exterior features painted lined render with ashlar dressings. The ground floor has two modern shopfronts that extend outward. The windows are arranged regularly, with the right bay showcasing later elaborate canted windows on all floors, featuring bipartite windows at the center. The first floor has three left bays that are united by a shallow pilastered bay. There are four dormers, with the one on the right being canted.
The windows are timber sash and case, consisting of four panes and plate glass, with casements in the shallow bay. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a stone stack.
The interior of the buildings is connected to the Royal British Hotel, which extends into the upper floors.
Local climate
21, 22, 23 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 — 5 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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