5 and 5A Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. House.
5 and 5A Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- weathered-passage-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 and 5A Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3JX
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95756, -3.188
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 and 5A Forth Street in Edinburgh is a classical terraced house designed by Robert Burn in 1800, with later alterations. The building is two stories high with a raised attic and features three bays. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and has a cornice and blocking course. Above the projecting addition at ground level, there is a four-bay shoulder-arched arcade with moulded arrises and moulded architraves for the first-floor windows, along with an eaves cornice and blocking course.
On the north (principal) elevation, the ground level showcases a four-bay arcade. To the left, there is a two-leaf timber door with a shouldered fanlight, and to the right, a former window has been replaced with a panelled timber door, also featuring a shouldered fanlight. The central area has plate glass shop windows with aprons. The upper level has regular fenestration, including two piended and canted windows within a full-width slate-hung dormer.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
5 and 5A Forth 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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