79, 81, 83, 85, 87 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Building. 2 related planning applications.

79, 81, 83, 85, 87 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
narrow-doorway-crimson
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
Building
Address
79, 81, 83, 85, 87 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5AG
OS grid reference
NT 248 745
Coordinates
55.95848, -3.20583
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

79, 81, 83, 85, and 87 St Stephen Street in Edinburgh are buildings dating from around 1856. They are three stories tall with a basement and feature a seven-window façade. The ground floor is made of ashlar stone, while the first floor has a band course, and the upper sections are finished with droved ashlar.

Local climate

79, 81, 83, 85, 87 St Stephen 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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