40, 42 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Office. 2 related planning applications.

40, 42 George Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
carved-mullion-autumn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Type
Office
Address
40, 42 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LE
OS grid reference
NT 252 740
Coordinates
55.95321, -3.19799
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40 and 42 George Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey building with a basement and attic, designed in 1983 by Cunningham Glass Partnership. It features a three-bay classical facade that is a pastiche of traditional styles, constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The right bay includes steps leading to a doorpiece that has a cornice and architrave, topped with a radiating fanlight. There is a cill course at the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a pair of broad canted piend-roofed dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has rendered stacks, ashlar coped skews, and is covered with grey slates.

Inside, the building has a modern office interior. The railings are modern replacement cast-iron.

Local climate

40, 42 George 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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