20-22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1966. Pair of houses. 8 related planning applications.
20-22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- brooding-window-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1966
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 20-22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2JR
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95231, -3.20041
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20-22 Frederick Street in Edinburgh is a former pair of classical houses built between 1786 and 1792, with later alterations. The building is three stories high with an attic and features four bays on a corner site, where the ground floor has been converted into shops. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar, with polished long and short quoins and an eaves cornice. The shop on the right has panelled pilasters and a consoled cornice. The bays are broadly spaced, and there are two piend-roofed canted dormers, which are shifted to the right.
The return elevation facing Rose Street is irregular and features three bays with a broad two-bay nepus gable at the center, with the shop continuing at ground level. The windows are timber sash and case, with 12-pane windows on the first floor and plate glass on the second floor, although both have uPVC replacements. The building has ashlar coped skews, and the stack at the gable has been reduced and removed to the north. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Inside, the ground floor has been thoroughly converted for retail use.
Local climate
20-22 Frederick 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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