13 Young Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1966. Former house. 4 related planning applications.
13 Young Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- heavy-eave-lark
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1966
- Type
- Former house
- Address
- 13 Young Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4HU
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95301, -3.20548
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
13 Young Street in Edinburgh is a classical former house built by John Young soon after 1779. The building is two stories high with a half-sunk basement and an attic, featuring three bays. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, and includes a base course, eaves cornice, and blocking course. The central bay has an architraved doorpiece with a mutule cornice, which leads to a deeply set door and a three-pane fanlight. The left bay contains tripartite windows, including one in the basement, and there is a later full-width slate-hung corniced dormer.
At the rear, there is a three-story, two-bay elevation that is adjoined by a two-story block of a neighboring church. The building features timber sash and case 12-pane windows, ashlar coped skews, stone stacks that are rendered to the east, and grey slates on the roof. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
13 Young 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 — 4 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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