17A Dundas Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1964. 1 related planning application.
17A Dundas Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- dark-cinder-tide
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1964
- Address
- 17A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 743
- Coordinates
- 55.95668, -3.19858
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
15 Dundas Street is a terraced tenement building in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in the early 19th century, with some alterations. It has four storeys and a basement, featuring five bays, with the fourth storey functioning as a wallhead attic. The building is constructed from broached ashlar sandstone, displaying V-jointed rustication at the principal floor. There are band courses between the basement and the principal floor, as well as between the principal and first floors. The first and second floors have projecting cills, and there is a cornice at the second floor, along with a string course and blocking course at the third floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platforms extend over the basement.
The west elevation, which is the principal facade, features a round-arched doorpiece with a lowered panelled timber common stair door in the penultimate bay from the left, accompanied by a four-pane rectangular fanlight. Above this door is a blocked former doorhead that has a blind radial and rectilinear round-arched fanlight. In the third bay from the right, there is a two-leaf panelled timber door with a decorative radial rectangular fanlight. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with cills lowered on the outer left and right at the third floor. There is a blind window in the penultimate bay from the right on the third floor and at the basement level. To the left, there is a two-bay pilastered and corniced shop front, which includes a two-leaf, six-panel timber door with a plate glass rectangular fanlight on the left and a plate glass shop window on the right.
The south elevation adjoins another terrace, which is listed separately (9-13C Dundas Street), as does the north elevation (19 and 21 Dundas Street). The building predominantly features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate M-roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The gablehead stack is made of broached ashlar and is coped with circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1997, but there is some evidence of working panelled shutters. The railings consist of ashlar copes topped with cast-iron railings that have spear-headed balusters and urn finials.
Local climate
17A Dundas 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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