20 Great Michael Rise, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1996.
20 Great Michael Rise, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- leaning-spindle-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1996
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 769
- Coordinates
- 55.97939, -3.19133
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Great Michael Rise is a four-storey, six-bay tenement block designed by Basil Spence in 1957. It is part of a group of buildings arranged in a 1-4-1 formation, with the central section advanced, and it forms the south side of a cul-de-sac overlooking the harbour. The advanced bays are finished with painted harl, while the flanking walls, base course, and forestairs are constructed with granite setts salvaged from roads. There are iron railings on the setted forestairs at the front of Nos 16, 18, and 20.
The north (entrance) elevation of Nos 14-20 features the central four bays that are advanced. The ground floor has a single door with flanking side-lights in the central bay, and there are three small square windows to the right and left. Each of the four bays has single windows on the first, second, and third floors. The recessed wings on the outer left and right also have single windows on all floors.
The building includes a mix of replacement uPVC and metal windows, as well as original timber picture and casement windows. The roofs are covered with grey slate and feature rendered ridge stacks made of precast concrete coping with circular cans.
Local climate
20 Great Michael Rise, 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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