1 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.
1 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chalk-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1SN
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93696, -3.17911
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Upper Gray Street in Edinburgh is a classical house built in 1810. It is a single storey with a raised basement and features a symmetrical three-bay design. Originally constructed as one unit, it has since been subdivided. The principal elevation facing Salisbury Place is made of lightly stugged cream sandstone ashlar, while the Upper Gray Street side is built from coursed rubble sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. The building includes a base course, a dividing band course, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with raised quoins on the principal elevation.
On the north elevation facing Salisbury Place, there is an advanced central bay with steps leading up to a central doorway that has a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. There are single windows in the outer left and right bays.
The east elevation facing Upper Gray Street features projecting cills on the first-floor windows. It also has a central doorway with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight, along with a single window above and in the outer left and right bays. There is a pedestrian gate next to the house to the south.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with four-light canted dormers. There is a tall coped wallhead stack to the south and octagonal moulded cans.
The property is enclosed by low coped boundary walls along Upper Gray Street, with replacement railings, and a high rubble wall to the south.
Local climate
1 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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- 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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