29 Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. 1 related planning application.
29 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pewter-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Address
- 29 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LE
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 745
- Coordinates
- 55.95787, -3.18627
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Union Street in Edinburgh is a classical corner tenement designed by Robert Burn in 1800 and restored after fire damage around 1995. This three-storey building, with a basement and attic, features a five-bay by six-bay layout and is constructed from sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has rustication, and there are band courses between the ground and first floors, as well as between the first and second floors. The building has projecting cills, a mutuled eaves cornice, and a blocking course, with entrance platts that oversail the basement.
On the north (principal) elevation, there are five bays featuring round-arched recesses at the ground level, with a central round-arched entrance that has a fanlight. The remaining bays have windows, and the upper floors display regular fenestration with four box dormers.
The east (Union Street) elevation consists of seven bays at the ground level, with a recessed bay to the left. There is a common stair entrance with a tripartite fanlight, and the remaining bays have regularly placed windows, although some are blocked for symmetry. The first floor above also has regular fenestration, with windows in the last three bays blocked for symmetry. Above, there are windows in three bays to the left and two small gablehead windows.
The west (side) elevation has an exposed gablehead adjoining 27 Forth Street, featuring a small window set to the left. The building has timber sash and case windows, predominantly with 12-pane glazing, grey slate roofing, gablehead stacks with terracotta cans, and decorative cast-iron railings.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
29 Forth 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 — 1 application
- 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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