Old Surgeon's Hall, Surgeon's Square, Drummond Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Office.
Old Surgeon's Hall, Surgeon's Square, Drummond Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- scattered-terrace-acorn
- 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
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94851, -3.18315
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Surgeon's Hall, located on Surgeon's Square in Drummond Street, Edinburgh, was designed by James Smith and completed in 1697, with significant additions made in the 19th century. This symmetrical, three-storey, four-bay building originally served as a Surgeon's Hall and is now used as offices. It features polygonal stair towers on the east and west sides, constructed of random rubble with raised ashlar margins.
The exterior includes a projecting base course, a band course, and a cill course at the first storey. The upper storeys have bipartite windows that are corniced at the first floor. The main entrance is marked by a central pedimented moulded doorpiece with a two-leaf timber door. At the rear, there is a central projecting stair tower with round-arched stair windows and a moulded doorpiece on the west side.
The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with some featuring a Gothic glazing pattern in the round-arched stair windows at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cast iron rainwater goods and coped gable stacks.
The interior was comprehensively modernised as of 2007.
Local climate
Old Surgeon's Hall, Surgeon's Square, Drummond 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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