85-87 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2001. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
85-87 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grim-pediment-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2001
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 85-87 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, EH2 4SD
- OS grid reference
- NT 245 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94898, -3.21011
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
85-87 Shandwick Place is a four-storey, two-bay symmetrical shop building designed by R Thornton Shiells & Thomson in 1889. The ground floor features polished black granite, while the upper floors are clad in polished red sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has a modern shop fascia, with a lintel course at each floor and a cill course on the second and third floors. The windows have chamfered reveals and are adorned with half-fluted pilasters at the first floor. The second and third floors feature recessed panels with central geometric shapes flanking the windows.
The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, has a modern shop front at the ground floor with a panelled timber pend door offset to the right. Above, each bay contains regularly arranged four-light canted windows, each topped with individual polygonal roofs.
The southwest and northeast elevations are obscured by adjoining buildings, and the southeast elevation was not visible in 2000. The building has two-pane timber sash and case windows, with modern shop windows at the ground floor. The polygonal roofs are covered in grey slate and feature vestigial finials, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior is fitted as a modern shop at the ground floor, with the rest of the interior not visible.
Local climate
85-87 Shandwick Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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