29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 February 1993. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
turning-cloister-peregrine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 February 1993
Type
Tenement
Address
29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent, Edinburgh, EH11 1HR
OS grid reference
NT 239 723
Coordinates
55.93805, -3.21824
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent is a four-storey, eight-bay corner tenement building dating from around 1900, featuring shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed from cream sandstone with an ashlar front. The projecting shops at the ground floor have a continuous cornice and blocking course, while there is a banded cill course at the second and third floors. The windows have chamfered reveals, and the third-floor windows are topped with coped gabled dormerheads, which have been rebuilt. The common stair doorways have panelled doors and rectangular fanlights with border glazing.

On the northeast elevation facing Polwarth Crescent, there are four bays, excluding the canted corner bay. The shop on the outer left (No 29) retains its original plain shopfront, featuring a recessed doorway and slender timber mullions with smaller panes at the top of the display windows. The centre bays have single windows, while the outer left bay has a three-storey canted window topped with a pyramidal finialled roof. The outer right bay features bipartite windows and tall wallhead stacks.

The north elevation facing Temple Park Crescent also has four bays, with a pub at the ground floor that includes an entrance door in the chamfered corner. The outer left has a three-storey canted corner bay with a tall parapet, angle pilasters, and pyramidal finials rising from carved corbels. It has a tall elongated swept polygonal roof with a finialled ogee top. There is a blank bay to the left of centre with a tall shouldered wallhead stack, while the bay to the right of centre contains single windows. The outer right has a three-storey canted window with a finialled pyramidal roof.

The building features timber sash and case windows, mostly with plate glass glazing, although the second and third-floor windows on the northeast elevation have been replaced. The slate roof has lead flashings, and there are two wallhead stacks, along with mutual stacks, all of which have been rebuilt. The eaves gutter is moulded, and there are gutterheads.

The interior was not seen in 1992.

Local climate

29, 31, 33, 35 Polwarth Crescent, 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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