3 Hanover Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996.

3 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
kindled-thatch-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 March 1996
Address
3 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2DL
OS grid reference
NT 253 739
Coordinates
55.95237, -3.19643
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Hanover Street in Edinburgh is a building constructed between 1784 and 1790, with later alterations and additions. Originally, it was a pair of two-storey and attic classical houses featuring three bays. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone with timber architraves. At the ground level, modern shops have been built out, although an earlier shop cornice can still be seen on the south side.

The three right bays have lugged architraves on the upper floors, added around 1900, and are corniced with keystones at the first floor. The three left bays feature a single large canted window at the first floor, with architraves on the second floor. There are two early 19th century bowed dormers, slate-hung, located on the outer bays.

The building has timber sash and case windows as well as casement windows, showcasing a variety of glazing. It also has stone mutual stacks and is covered with grey slates. The interior of the shops has been completely modernised.

Local climate

3 Hanover 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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