37, 38 South Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Row of tenements. 6 related planning applications.

37, 38 South Bridge, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
twelfth-corbel-sedge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Row of tenements
Address
37, 38 South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1LL
OS grid reference
NT 259 734
Coordinates
55.94866, -3.18658
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

37 and 38 South Bridge in Edinburgh are possibly designed by Robert Kay around 1790. This building consists of a three-storey and attic row of Classical tenements, featuring six sections with six bays each, and shops on the ground floor. It is located on a steeply sloping site, which includes three basement storeys that face Cowgate to the north and Niddry Street to the east. The exterior is made of ashlar stone, with coursed rubble at the rear. The building has pedimented gables with lunettes facing Infirmary Street and Cowgate, along with a band course, raised cills, and a cornice.

The ground floor includes several round-arched openings with six-panel timber entrance doors and multi-pane glazed fanlights above. The shopfronts are adorned with timber fascias, fluted timber pilasters, decorative timber consoles, and timber panelled stallrisers. There are later additions including dormers, box dormers, and mansard and attic storeys. The windows to the north feature raised architraves with consoled cornices.

Most of the windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The building has coped gables, wallhead, and ridge stacks, and is covered with grey slates.

Local climate

37, 38 South Bridge, 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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