35, 37, 39 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
35, 37, 39 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ghost-facade-acorn
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 35, 37, 39 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DY
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95413, -3.19893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
35, 37, 39 Thistle Street is a tenement building dating from around 1775, with later alterations made in the 19th century at the ground level. The structure is three stories tall with an attic and features seven bays, built on a site that slopes down to the north at the rear. The exterior is made of coursed rubble.
At the center of the building, there is a doorway leading to a common stair, which is flanked on the right by a three-bay shop that has modern canted glazing. To the left, there is a public bar from the later 19th century, which has a corniced rendered finish and an arcaded central tripartite window flanked by arched doorways. The building also features a pair of tripartite piend-roofed dormers.
The rear elevation is irregular, consisting of four stories and four bays, with two central bays that are gabled and have an apex stack. The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has ashlar coped skews and stone stacks, which have been rebuilt on the west side and harled on the east side, topped with grey slates.
The interior was not seen in 1995. There are boundary walls made of coped rubble that form a screen wall to the rear area.
Local climate
35, 37, 39 Thistle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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