60 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Shop. 10 related planning applications.
60 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bronze-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 60 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95268, -3.19511
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a six-storey, two-bay Jacobean shop building designed by Hippolyte J Blanc in 1903, featuring a modern shopfront. The building has a narrow gabled frontage made of polished cream sandstone ashlar, which has been cleaned.
On the first and second floors, there are pairs of three-light canted windows with ashlar mullions and transoms, and strapwork balustrading at the first floor. The third floor features a pair of four-light windows with a full-width Roman Doric columned gallery, along with a strapwork balustrade and parapet. The fourth floor has four bipartite windows and a bracketed cornice. The gable is adorned with a pair of pilastered and corniced windows, framed by narrow pilasters and corbelled octagonal towers topped with tiny domed finials.
The building has multi-pane metal casement windows, ashlar coped skews, a corniced stack, and grey slates. The interior consists of a modern shop on the ground and first floors, which is linked to the shop to the east.
Local climate
60 Princes 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 — 10 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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