24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Tenement. 7 related planning applications.

24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fallow-cellar-primrose
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1966
Type
Tenement
Address
24 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JR
OS grid reference
NT 251 739
Coordinates
55.9524, -3.20053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

24 Frederick Street is a former tenement building constructed between 1786 and 1792. It is a three-storey and attic structure with nine bays, designed in a classical style and built from droved cream sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has been adapted for shops, and there is an additional storey with a further attic above the four northern bays, which features a flagpole. The building has a common stair located at the center, and it is topped with a mutuled eaves cornice.

Above the common stair, there is a corniced tripartite box dormer, while to the left, there are two piend-roofed dormers, one of which is bipartite. The northern side features a pair of bipartite box dormers. The windows are timber sash and case, with 12-pane windows on the southern side, and lower plate glass sash windows at the first floor, while the northern side has plate glass windows. The building has ashlar coped skews, with a stack removed from the southern side, rendered stacks at the center, and corniced stone stacks to the north, all covered with grey slates.

Inside, the shops have been modernized, and there is modern access to the tenement stair, with many alterations made to incorporate a lift and offices.

Local climate

24 Frederick 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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