17, 19, 21, 23 Blair Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement block. 9 related planning applications.
17, 19, 21, 23 Blair Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-truss-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 17, 19, 21, 23 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR
- OS grid reference
- NT 259 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94922, -3.18788
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17, 19, 21, and 23 Blair Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey and basement tenement block dating from around 1790. It features a six-bay façade made of droved ashlar with raised cills and an eaves course. The first floor has applied timber architraves, and the windows on the first, second, and third floors are tripartite, with a round-arched treatment on the ground floor to the left, which includes an over-sailing stair. The public house at the ground floor has a 1930s style frontage characterized by horizontal banding on the fascia, with horizontal fixed-pane windows on either side of the central doorway and stylized signage lettering above.
The building has plate-glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. There are also cast-iron railings at Nos 21 and 23. The ground floor of Nos 17 and 19 has been refurbished for use as a public house.
Local climate
17, 19, 21, 23 Blair 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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- Related listed building consents — 9 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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