Fire Station, 3 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981.

Fire Station, 3 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
final-cupola-juniper
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1981
OS grid reference
NT 246 745
Coordinates
55.9583, -3.20834
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Police Depot at 5 Hamilton Place in Edinburgh is a pair of single-storey over-basement buildings constructed in 1831 by Thomas Brown for police use. They are built from droved ashlar and feature three bays. Building number 3 has blind elliptical arched recesses in each bay, which now have altered openings. Building number 5 has a central door with "No 5" on the panel above, along with blind elliptical arched recesses in the outer bays that also have altered openings. The east side has an upper 6-pane sash window, while the west side contains two 12-pane sashes and a blind central window. Both buildings are topped with a cornice and blocking course, which continues on all four elevations for building number 3. The rear elevation is two storeys high, with building number 3 having one window and one blocked window, while building number 5 features a variety of rear fenestration, including two cell windows. The buildings have a piended slate roof.

Local climate

Fire Station, 3 Hamilton Place, 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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