48A Frederick Street, 48, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Classical tenement. 5 related planning applications.
48A Frederick Street, 48, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- silver-spandrel-spindle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Classical tenement
- Address
- 48A Frederick Street, 48, Edinburgh, EH2 1EX
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95347, -3.20115
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
48A Frederick Street and 48 in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building constructed between 1786 and 1792, with some later alterations. It stands three storeys high with an attic and features a three-bay facade made of droved cream ashlar sandstone. The ground floor has a later 19th-century three-bay shopfront with slender Corinthian columns on the left side (No 48) and a two-bay shopfront on the right (No 48a) that includes a consoled cornice. The building has an eaves cornice.
At the rear, there is a four-storey two-bay elevation made of rubble. To the south, there is a two-storey, two-bay coach house with an M-shaped roof, which has rooms above and a single-storey link to the shop.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The building features an ashlar-coped mutual skew and a stone stack to the south, with a roof covered in grey slates. The roofline is continuous with a four-bay, four-storey and attic corner block (No 50), which was designed by Covell, Matthews & Partners in 1969.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
48A Frederick Street, 48, 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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