4, 5, 6 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Tenement. 7 related planning applications.
4, 5, 6 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tattered-doorway-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 4, 5, 6 Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94658, -3.1913
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4, 5, 6 Greyfriars Place is a 4-storey and attic tenement building dating from 1724, with later alterations and additions. It features a 3-bay design with a nepus gable, a wallhead chimney, and shops at the ground level, which were established in 1849. The building is constructed from random rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, and the shops have painted ashlar with a continuous fascia and blocking course.
The entrance to the flats is located at the center, featuring a narrow 3-pane fanlight above the door. To the right, there is a shop with a timber panelled door and fanlight, flanked by modern windows. The shop to the left has a door in the center, also flanked by modern windows, and a narrow bowed window to the left. The upper floors are regularly fenestrated, and there is an eaves cornice. The nepus gable has a 3-light window, with a round-arched keyblocked blind window at the center and an apex stack. The rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated and includes flat-roofed dormers in the attic.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are stone skews. The chimney stacks are corniced with circular cans at the dormerhead and ridge.
Local climate
4, 5, 6 Greyfriars Place, 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 — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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