17 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. House.
17 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- swift-glass-quill
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95295, -3.2058
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17 Young Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built by John Young shortly after 1779. It features two storeys, a half-sunk basement, and an attic, with a three-bay façade constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar and polished dressings. The building has an eaves cornice and steps leading up to a deeply set door with a four-pane fanlight at the center. The left bay is adorned with tripartite windows, and there is a later addition of a full-width corniced slate-hung dormer.
The rear elevation is irregular, consisting of three storeys and three bays, built from rubble, and it connects to a two-storey rendered range that includes garages on the ground floor and a top-lit studio on the first floor, located at No 22 Young Street Lane North. The windows are timber sash and case with twelve panes. The building features ashlar coped skews, rendered stacks, and grey slate roofing.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
17 Young 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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