47 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
47 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- carved-cobalt-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 47 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DY
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95409, -3.1993
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47 Thistle Street is a tenement building dating from around 1775. It has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with six bays, and is built on ground that slopes down to the north at the rear. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble. The doorway to the common stair is located at the centre right, featuring a wrought-iron sign above it that reads "GORDON WILSON PAINTER." The building has a pair of piend-roofed tripartite dormers and one bipartite dormer.
The rear elevation is irregular, consisting of five storeys and an attic with five bays, and includes additions at the ground level as well as a large box dormer. The windows are timber sash and case, with 12 panes, although some at the ground level are made of plate glass. The building features ashlar coped skews, rebuilt stone stacks, and is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
47 Thistle 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 — 2 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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