3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 July 1983. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tenth-landing-acorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1983
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 3 Merchant Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2QD
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94777, -3.19227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Merchant Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey tenement building with an attic and basement, designed by Robert Burn in 1810. The exterior features droved ashlar stone with polished dressings and has a regular arrangement of windows, each with raised margins. To the left of the entrance, there is a window set in a keystoned round-arched recess. The entrance is accessed by stone steps and platts, which are adorned with cast-iron railings that cover the basement area.
The main door is a deep-set timber panelled design, topped with a three-pane glazed fanlight and framed by a Doric pilastered doorpiece with a fluted frieze. The building also includes later piend-roofed dormers. The windows are timber sash and case, featuring 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. A corniced end stack with circular cans is present as well.
Local climate
3 Merchant 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
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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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