6 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 5 related planning applications.

6 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gaunt-doorway-sorrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
6 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2DP
OS grid reference
NT 248 735
Coordinates
55.94863, -3.20565
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 Castle Terrace is a classical terrace building dating from around 1850. It is two storeys high with an attic and basement, featuring a curved design with nine bays. The exterior is finished in cream ashlar, which is droved at the basement level. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors. A cill course is present at the first floor, along with an eaves cornice and a blocking course. The doors and windows have lugged architraves, and there are stone steps leading to the basement area, which is covered by platts. The outer right bay and the third bay from the left have timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights above them. The building has piend-roofed dormers that are hung with slate.

The windows are timber sash and case style, featuring 8-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Corniced stacks with circular cans are also present.

The boundary wall is made of low ashlar and features spear-headed cast-iron railings.

Local climate

6 Castle Terrace, 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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