4 Hill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. 1 related planning application.
4 Hill Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tall-mullion-rowan
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Address
- 4 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 250 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95346, -3.20171
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Hill Street in Edinburgh is a pair of classical former houses built between 1788 and 1794 by James Hill. These three-storey and attic buildings feature three bays and are constructed from droved cream ashlar with polished dressings. The front elevation has a cill course at the ground level and an eaves course. The inner bays have architraved corniced doorpieces with fluted friezes, plate glass fanlights, and deep-set doors, with No 4 having flush-panelled doors. No 2 has a blind window at the center of the second floor and a pair of piend-roofed dormers, while No 4 has a mansard roof with three dormers.
The gable is made of irregular coursed rubble and includes windows to the left, along with a later bay to the south. The rear elevation is two-storey and attic with two bays, featuring a projecting bay to the right.
The buildings have timber sash and case 12-pane windows, with plate glass on the ground and first floors of No 2. The roofs are finished with ashlar coped skews, stone stacks, and grey slates. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
4 Hill 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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