6, 7, 8 Summer Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Terrace.

6, 7, 8 Summer Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
kindled-eave-rook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Terrace
Address
6, 7, 8 Summer Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5NR
OS grid reference
NT 250 752
Coordinates
55.96403, -3.20225
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6, 7, and 8 Summer Place in Edinburgh is a building likely constructed in the 1860s. It is four stories tall and features a four-window facade facing Inverleith Terrace and a three-window facade towards Summer Place. The top floor has pedimented heads, while the first and second floors display roundels with sculptured heads. The ground floor is rusticated and has segmentally arched openings that contain shops. The building has a splayed corner with a consoled corbelled rectangular bay, adorned with Corinthianesque pilasters, and includes mullioned and transomed windows topped with a pediment.

Local climate

6, 7, 8 Summer 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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