7-17 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
7-17 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- slow-brick-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 7-17 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5HX
- OS grid reference
- NT 269 759
- Coordinates
- 55.97066, -3.17249
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 7-17 Great Junction Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1860 and is a plain classical tenement that stands four stories tall with an attic and shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from cream sandstone, featuring ashlar on the main façades, polished at the ground level, and droved above. The rear and side elevations are made of coursed rubble with stugged dressings. Notable architectural details include a band course and cornice above the ground floor, a cill band course at the third floor, and an eaves cornice.
The northeast elevation facing Great Junction Street has ten bays, with chamfered reveals around the doorways. The shopfronts have been replaced with modern designs, and there are common stair doorways that feature three-pane fanlights. The upper floors have single windows, with a blinded window in the seventh bay. The roof includes five single dormers with half-pitched roofs.
The southwest rear elevation has irregularly placed windows and wallhead stacks. The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows at the front and plate glass windows at the rear. The roof is covered with slate and has metal flashings, with stacks at the apex, wallhead, and mutual locations.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1993.
Local climate
7-17 Great Junction 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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