66 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 January 1966. 4 related planning applications.

66 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
under-gutter-harvest
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 January 1966
Address
66 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EL
OS grid reference
NT 253 740
Coordinates
55.95369, -3.19767
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

64 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a classical corner block built around 1775, with later additions. It is a four-storey building with a basement and features five bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, long and short quoins at the corner, a cill course at the third floor, a dentilled cornice, and a balustraded concrete parapet.

On the George Street elevation, the four left bays have two shops at ground level that extend out and incorporate the basement, featuring timber facing. The symmetrical three-bay shop on the right is slightly built out and has a consoled cornice, with a basement shop below.

The Hanover Street elevation has four bays, with steps leading to a corniced common stair door located in the centre right bay, flanked by early 19th-century pilastraded shopfronts. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof has rendered stacks and is covered with grey slates.

Inside, the ground floor has been significantly altered and is linked with offices to the south on the upper floors. The property also features simple cast-iron railings.

Local climate

66 Hanover 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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