127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Office. 6 related planning applications.
127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- drifting-floor-frost
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1966
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 127, 129 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JN
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95239, -3.2056
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
127 and 129 George Street in Edinburgh is a classical office building dating from around 1790, with 19th century additions removed and the ground floor rebuilt by Robert Hurd and Partners in 1973-1974. The structure is three stories high, with a basement and attic, and features six bays. It is constructed from droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings, and has a rusticated ground floor. The right bay has a round-headed tripartite doorway. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, with a moulded cill course, and there is a cornice with a lead-covered blocking course. The building includes six modern canted piend-roofed dormers that are slate-hung.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has ashlar coped mutual skews and stone stacks, with recessed downpipes on the flanks and center, although the left side is missing one. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Inside, there is a modern office behind the retained facade. The property also features cast-iron spearhead railings and a pair of replacement wrought- and cast-iron lamp standards.
Local climate
127, 129 George 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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