1-2 Hunter Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 7 related planning applications.
1-2 Hunter Square, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- drifting-newel-lark
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 1-2 Hunter Square, Edinburgh, EH1 1QW
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94987, -3.18814
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
124 High Street in Edinburgh is a commercial building attributed to John Baxter, dating from around 1790. It is a three-storey structure with an attic, featuring a seven-bay by four-bay Classical design and a prominent corner position at Hunter Square and High Street. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with raised cills and in-and-out raised quoins. A Diocletian window is located within the pediment facing Hunter Square. The second floor on the High Street elevation has a fluted frieze and cornice, decorated with rose roundels, and there is a four-bay attic above, topped with a pediment that has a broad stack at the apex.
The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with Scottish slate. It has particularly broad brick and harled stacks with clay cans, as well as cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
1-2 Hunter Square, 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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- 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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