9, 10, 11 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

9, 10, 11 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
pale-grate-dale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
9, 10, 11 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4PG
OS grid reference
NT 245 737
Coordinates
55.95054, -3.20947
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

9, 10, 11 Queensferry Street is a classical tenement building designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1823. It is four stories tall and has seven bays, with later timber and plate glass shop premises on the ground floor. The building features mid-19th century corniced and consoled detailing that has been added to the original architraved window openings. The exterior is made of painted sandstone ashlar and includes a banded cill course at the second and third floors, as well as a corniced eaves course.

The first-floor windows have architraved surrounds and consoled dentilled cornices, while the second and third-story windows also have architraved surrounds with bracketed cills and cornices. The attic features later dormers from the mid-19th century. The ground floor shop fronts are made of plate glass, with predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows on the first floor, and 4-pane timber sash and case windows on the second and third floors. The building has corniced ashlar gable end and ridge stacks, along with cast iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

9, 10, 11 Queensferry 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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