74, 75, 77 Queen Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Office. 4 related planning applications.
74, 75, 77 Queen Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- third-copper-scarlet
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 74, 75, 77 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4NF
- OS grid reference
- NT 247 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95305, -3.20633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
74, 75, and 77 Queen Street in Edinburgh date back to around 1790, with later alterations made at the ground level and the facade retained in 1984. The building features three storeys plus a basement and attic, showcasing a 10-bay classical facade that now serves as a modern office. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings and consists of two distinct blocks.
Number 74 is a three-bay section with channelled rustication at the ground level. It includes an earlier 19th-century pedimented porch with fluted Greek Ionic columns on the left bay. The upper floors have cill courses, a mutuled cornice, and a blocking course. There is a modern piend-roofed tripartite dormer.
Numbers 75 and 77 form a seven-bay section with V-jointed rustication at the ground level. The centre features a former common stair door, while to the left is a tripartite Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece (a modern reinstatement). To the right, there is a similar four-bay pilastered shopfront with a fluted Ionic columned doorpiece, all of which have been much restored. The first floor has a moulded cill course, a mutuled cornice, and a blocking course, along with six modern piend-roofed dormers.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. The building has ashlar coped skews, a surviving stone stack to the west, and a rebuilt stack to the east, all covered with grey slates.
Inside, the building has a modern office interior featuring reused chimneypieces in the front rooms. Additionally, there are cast-iron spearhead railings surrounding the property.
Local climate
74, 75, 77 Queen 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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- 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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