20 South Clerk Street, 18, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. 1 related planning application.

20 South Clerk Street, 18, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-soffit-lark
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
Address
20 South Clerk Street, 18, Edinburgh, EH8 9PR
OS grid reference
NT 263 725
Coordinates
55.94055, -3.181
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 28, 30, and 32 South Clerk Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1871. It is a four-storey tenement block constructed from ashlar stone and does not feature a specific architectural style. The ground floor includes shops, and there is a canted bay corner that aligns with the adjacent buildings at nos 2-10. The upper floors display three canted bays arranged in intervals of four, three, and two windows, all set on a continuous advanced podium of ground floor shops. The building features dentilled cornices along South Clerk Street and architraved windows with cornices on the first floor. The façade facing Hope Park Terrace has four windows and a canted bay, and the roofs are slated.

Local climate

20 South Clerk Street, 18, 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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  1. 22, 24, 26 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh Grade C 8 m
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  4. Hope Park And Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park Terrace, Edinburgh Grade B 23 m
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  6. Post Office And Tenement, 41 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh Grade C 39 m
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