25 James Craig Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
25 James Craig Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- gilded-tower-merlin
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 25 James Craig Walk, Edinburgh, EH1 3BA
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95473, -3.19016
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 James Craig Walk is a classical tenement building designed by James Craig around 1775. It is a four-storey structure with a basement and attic, featuring six bays and constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar that has been stone cleaned and patched. The building has long and short quoins and an eaves cornice.
The front elevation has a rubble basement and the bays are slightly displaced from the center. It features Roman Doric pilastered doorpieces, with one located at the center left leading to the common stair (No 25) and another at the center for the main door. The central two bays have an open pedimented nepus gable with an apex stack, while small dormers are present in the outer bays.
The rear elevation is seven bays wide and made of rubble. The central three bays are flanked by five-storey gabled sections on the right, and the outer bays are bowed and also five-storey. There are decorative cast-iron balconies on the second floor of the left bow. The rubble gables include windows at the center.
The building features timber sash and case 12-pane windows, with ashlar coped skews, rebuilt corniced ashlar stacks, and grey slates. The hoppers are dated 1995. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
25 James Craig Walk, 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 — 3 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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