6, 7, 8 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

6, 7, 8 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twelfth-turret-amber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1993
Type
Tenement
Address
6, 7, 8 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1EL
OS grid reference
NT 251 723
Coordinates
55.93825, -3.20014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6, 7, 8 Marchmont Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey, five-bay tenement building designed by Alexander MacNaughton in 1882. It features Jacobean details and is part of a terrace. The exterior is made of coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and has been stone-cleaned. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a string course above the ground floor and at the second floor, raised window surrounds, chamfered reveals, roll-moulded doorways, panelled doors, and plate glass fanlights.

The entrance elevation has a shouldered doorway at the center, adorned with pilasters and strapwork carving in an open pediment, flanked by single windows. Above this, there are single windows, and a semi-circular dormerhead. There are doorways in the second and fourth bays, with single windows above each, a pedimented dormerhead in the second bay, and a semi-circular dormerhead in the fourth bay. The outer bays feature full-height canted windows that are corbelled to square at the gableheads, with a corniced slit window in the gablehead to the outer left and a string course over the slit window in the mannered gablehead to the outer right. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, a corniced wallhead stack with a blank diamond panel inset, and coped mutual stacks.

Local climate

6, 7, 8 Marchmont 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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