Balustraded Terrace, North Bank Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terrace.
Balustraded Terrace, North Bank Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-spindle-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Balustraded Terrace, North Bank Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2LP
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94988, -3.19451
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Balustraded Terrace on North Bank Street in Edinburgh dates from around 1860. It features a paved terrace that is enclosed by an ashlar retaining wall and a stone balustrade. The balustrade is topped with obelisks on ball feet, which have strapwork decoration and serve as lamp standards. Additionally, there is a decorative two-leaf wrought- and cast-iron gate.
Local climate
Balustraded Terrace, North Bank 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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