22-26 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
22-26 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- burning-dormer-dawn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 22-26 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DH
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94632, -3.18503
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
22-26 Nicolson Street is a Classical tenement building dating from around 1790. It has four storeys and an attic, with shops on the ground floor that have been altered, and a basement to the left. The front is finished in droved ashlar, while the rear is constructed of rubble. A dentilled cornice decorates the ground floor, and there is a moulded cornice above. The windows have raised cills, and the building features a later mansard roof with dormers. Shallow steps lead up to a central boarded timber entrance door, which has a fanlight above it. At the rear, there is a projecting central bowed wing.
The building displays a variety of glazing patterns, including some 12-pane timber sash and case windows, some plate glass sash and case windows, and other non-traditional windows. The shops have plate glass windows, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
22-26 Nicolson 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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