3, 4 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. Tenement.
3, 4 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tall-vault-vermeil
- 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
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 247 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94864, -3.20586
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 and 4 Castle Terrace in Edinburgh is a classical tenement block built around 1831. It has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, featuring a six-bay design. The building is constructed from cream ashlar stone, which is channelled at the ground level. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, topped with a moulded eaves cornice. The first-floor windows have a cill course and moulded, corniced architraves, while the second-floor windows have moulded surrounds.
Stone steps lead to the basement area, and there are timber panelled doors with plate glass fanlights in the first and fourth bays from the left. The attic features slate-hung dormers with tripartite windows. The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case with 8-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates, complemented by corniced stacks with circular cans.
The property is enclosed by a low ashlar boundary wall topped with spear-headed cast-iron railings.
Local climate
3, 4 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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