119 Princes Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. 2 related planning applications.

119 Princes Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
waiting-hammer-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Address
119 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AA
OS grid reference
NT 249 737
Coordinates
55.95112, -3.20344
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

120 Princes Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th century building with 20th century additions. It consists of two three-storey and attic former classical tenements, featuring five bays. The exterior is made of droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. At the ground level, modern shops have been built out, while an early 20th century timber extension at the first floor includes five broad canted windows with elaborate curvilinear timber glazing, set beneath a straight fascia and cornice.

The original second floor is clearly divided into two sections: to the east, there are five plain bays with an irregular arrangement of three piend-roofed dormers; to the west, there are four bays with long and short quoins and a recessed former common stair bay beyond. This section features a mutule eaves cornice, a tripartite box dormer, a pair of pedimented dormers, and an additional segmental pedimented tripartite dormer.

The rear of the building is constructed from coursed rubble and includes a three-bay bow to the east with a Venetian window above, as well as a nepus gable to the west and an attached iron fire escape. The upper floors have a variety of timber sash and case windows, and the building is topped with ashlar coped skews and stone stacks on the west block, finished with grey slates.

The interior has been adapted for modern retail units.

Local climate

119 Princes 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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