5 South Forth Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Terraced house.
5 South Forth Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- wild-nave-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 763
- Coordinates
- 55.97448, -3.1832
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 South Forth Street is a pair of classical terraced houses built around 1815. They are two stories tall with a basement and feature two bays. The exterior is made of cream droved ashlar sandstone with polished dressings, and the ground floor is rusticated. There is a base course and a band course above, along with a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced, with fluted aprons on the first-floor windows. There are steps leading up to deep-set panelled doors in the inner bays, which have rectangular fanlights above them.
The basements have three bays with doors at the center. The windows are fitted with plate glass timber sash and case glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
The entrance features ashlar steps and a saddleback base for cast-iron spearhead railings.
Local climate
5 South Forth 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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