23-24 Greenside Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 2001. Tenement block. 5 related planning applications.
23-24 Greenside Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- low-basalt-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 June 2001
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 23-24 Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95702, -3.18504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
23-24 Greenside Place in Edinburgh is a symmetrical tenement block designed by John Baxter around 1798. The building is four stories tall with an attic, and five stories and an attic at the rear, featuring an eight-bay elevation. The ground floor has later shops that extend out. The structure is made of droved ashlar, which consists of coursed squared rubble with dressed margins at the rear. It includes a cill course on the second and third floors, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. There are panelled giant pilasters at the outer left and right sides, and the fenestration is regular.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a two-storey extension with a pilastered timber elevation on the left and a single-storey extension with round-arched openings on the right. The roof features canted dormers.
The east (rear) elevation is five stories tall with an attic and has a seven-bay layout. It includes tripartite windows on the first floor and dormers on the roof.
The building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The dormers have grey slate haffits and roofs, with the left dormer having a piended roof and the right a conical roof. There are two rooflights on the west elevation. The main roof is pitched and covered with graded grey slates, with stone skews and skewputts. The building has corniced rendered stacks with circular cans, a gablehead stack on the north and south sides, a ridge stack at the center, and two wallhead stacks at the rear.
Local climate
23-24 Greenside Place, 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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