31, 33 Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 June 2015. Commercial. 1 related planning application.

31, 33 Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
bitter-sill-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 June 2015
Type
Commercial
Address
31, 33 Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1BQ
OS grid reference
NT 257 737
Coordinates
55.9511, -3.19107
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

31 and 33 Waverley Bridge in Edinburgh is a building designed by Robert Moreham, constructed between 1877 and 1890. It may have involved the rebuilding of an 1868 station building by James Bell to create a railway agents office. The building features an early 20th-century glazed corner shopfront and has undergone later internal alterations.

On the north elevation, which faces the railway at street level, there is a three-bay ashlar façade with round-headed windows that have set-back margins, moulded heads, and a string course. The windows have Georgian glazing with narrow astragals. Above, there is a modillioned cornice with a guilloche frieze. A single bay extension includes a blind window that mirrors the stone windows as part of a timber extension on the west and south elevations. The building has two basement levels with squared rubble and round-headed windows.

The west and south elevations feature a wooden and glazed shopfront façade. All windows are basket-arched, with plain separating pilasters on the west elevation and part fluted, part panelled pilasters on the south elevation. A frieze with a dentil cornice runs along the top.

Additionally, there is stanchion and tube railing at the edge of the original masonry roof. The interior was extensively altered in 2013-14.

Local climate

31, 33 Waverley Bridge, 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 1 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Grade B 34 m
  2. Public House, 15, 16 And 17 Market Street, Edinburgh Grade B 37 m
  3. 5 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Grade B 41 m
  4. Public House, 14 Market Street, Edinburgh Grade B 42 m
  5. St Christopher's Hotel, 13 Market Street, Edinburgh Grade B 46 m
  6. 7 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Grade B 46 m
  7. 9 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Grade B 46 m
  8. Police Call Box, Market Street, Edinburgh Grade B 47 m
  9. 17 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Grade B 49 m
  10. St Christopher's Hotel, 12 Market Street, Edinburgh Grade B 52 m