1 Summerhall Square, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Building. 5 related planning applications.

1 Summerhall Square, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
solemn-vault-ash
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Building
Address
1 Summerhall Square, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL
OS grid reference
NT 262 724
Coordinates
55.93933, -3.18192
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Summerhall Square in Edinburgh is a building dating from 1832. It is four stories tall, with the ground floor used as shops. The building features curved corners and has pedimented doorpieces supported by Roman Doric columns, although the frieze is missing at No 5.

Local climate

1 Summerhall Square, 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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