2-3 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.

2-3 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
bitter-garret-owl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
2-3 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
OS grid reference
NT 260 728
Coordinates
55.94284, -3.18499
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2-3 Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh is a four-storey building with a dormered attic and basement, dating from around 1790 and designed by James Brown. This terrace of tenements features a slightly recessed single bay with a common stair at Nos. 2 and 5. The structure is made of ashlar sandstone, with a channelled ashlar ground floor and bases, and has long and short quoined corners. The ground floor includes shops at the corner of Buccleuch Place and Buccleuch Street, featuring timber fascias. The rear elevation is constructed from rubble sandstone.

The building showcases a variety of round-arched and flat-arched entrances, with entrance plats that oversail the basement. Nos. 3 and 5 feature a Roman Doric columned and corniced doorpiece, while No. 6 has a pedimented doorpiece with an open base. A central gablehead stack is present at No. 1. The rear elevations of Nos. 3, 4, and 6 each have a full-height, two-window, off-centre bowed bay.

The windows are primarily 12-pane glazing set in sash and case timber frames. The roofs are covered with grey slates and feature wide, corniced ridge and gable stacks with cylindrical cans. The property is enclosed by low coped walls topped with cast iron railings.

Local climate

2-3 Buccleuch Place, 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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