99 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. 6 related planning applications.
99 Princes Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- third-chalk-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Address
- 99 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95168, -3.1999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
99A Princes Street in Edinburgh is a former classical tenement building dating from the later 18th century, with some later additions at the ground level. It stands three stories tall with an attic on a corner site and is constructed of painted droved sandstone ashlar featuring polished dressings. The building has long and short rusticated quoins at the angle and modern shops that extend over the basement at the ground floor, highlighted by a canted corner. A moulded eaves cornice adds to its architectural detail.
On the Princes Street elevation, the building has a four-bay design with a pair of canted piend-roofed dormers. The Frederick Street elevation features an irregular three-bay gable with an additional single bay to the north, which includes two attic windows in the gablehead and a piend-roofed dormer to the right.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews and stone stacks. The interior consists of a modern retail unit on the ground and first floors.
Local climate
99 Princes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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