6, 8 Shandwick Place is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2009. Tenement, shop. 7 related planning applications.
6, 8 Shandwick Place
- WRENN ID
- burning-chancel-crimson
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 2009
- Type
- Tenement, shop
- Address
- 6, 8 Shandwick Place, EH2 4RN
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95016, -3.2088
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 and 8 Shandwick Place is a four-storey, four-bay classical Renaissance tenement and shop built in 1880 by Robert Paterson, with a later top-floor studio arcade added by John McLaren in 1896. The building features sandstone ashlar and channelled ashlar at the first floor. The shop front is pilastered and made of timber, with a round-arched fanlight and doorway to the left, topped by a corniced fascia.
At the first floor, there is a canted four-light wide bay, alongside a narrow window to the left with a fielded panel above. The second floor showcases wide Doric fielded pilasters, and the original consoled and corniced eaves course is topped by an arcaded third floor, which includes pilasters and keystones. The building is finished with a corniced parapet, and the end dies are adorned with urn finials.
The shop front has extensive plate glass glazing, while the first and second floors feature plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The third floor has round-headed transomed windows with 18-pane glazing and hoppers.
Local climate
6, 8 Shandwick Place 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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