42 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 1 related planning application.

42 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
grey-lantern-scarlet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
42 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1SW
OS grid reference
NT 264 720
Coordinates
55.93556, -3.1783
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40 Upper Gray Street is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay classical house. It features a near symmetrical design with a single-storey wing to the north and a lower two-storey wing to the south. The principal elevation is finished in cream sandstone polished ashlar, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. The building has a base course, eaves course, deep cornice, and a blocking course.

On the entrance elevation, there is a central doorway with a panelled door and a geometric-pattern fanlight above it. To the first floor, there is a single window above the doorway, and single windows in the outer bays on both the ground and first floors. The single-storey wing has one window. The two-storey wing features a doorway in the right bay, a single window above it, a canted window in the left bay at ground level, and a single window above.

The ground floor and single-storey wing have 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the first floor and two-storey wing have replacement 2-pane windows. The roof is pitched with grey slate and has coped and rendered gablehead stacks.

The property is enclosed by a low, coursed, and coped boundary wall along the street.

Local climate

42 Upper Gray 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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