1, 3 Victoria Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement. 9 related planning applications.
1, 3 Victoria Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tenth-string-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 1, 3 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2HE
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94842, -3.19403
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 and 3 Victoria Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey, three-bay tenement building designed by David Bryce in 1839. The building features shops on the ground floor and is stepped to follow the slope of the street. It is constructed of cream coursed ashlar, which is painted at the ground level, while the rear is made of random rubble. The ground floor has a consoled cornice, and the windows are set in raised surrounds, with pedimented dormers that break the eaves.
The entrance on the outer left consists of a panelled door leading to a close, while the second bay from the left has a timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight. To the right, there is a two-leaf timber panelled door for the shop, flanked by windows. At the rear, there is an earlier two-storey, six-bay rubble building that is positioned at right angles, featuring a slated roof and a corniced end stack.
The building includes 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, is topped with graded grey slates, and has crowstepped skews. The corniced ridge stacks are equipped with circular cans.
Local climate
1, 3 Victoria 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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- Related listed building consents — 9 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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