19 Thistle Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Office. 2 related planning applications.
19 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- silent-mantel-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 19 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DF
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95455, -3.1968
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
19 Thistle Street in Edinburgh is a building constructed in 1900. It features four storeys, a basement, and an attic, designed as two-bay offices. The exterior is made of painted ashlar stone. On the right side, there is a corniced tripartite doorway with a pedimented overlight. To the left, you will find a half-sunk tripartite basement window, with a segmental-headed bipartite window above it. The first floor has transomed windows with a cill course, and a mullion to the left. The second floor windows mirror those on the ground floor and also have a cill course, positioned at the eaves level of the original houses. The third floor features five windows. The building has an eaves course and a mansard attic.
The rear elevation is five storeys high and constructed of rubble, with garaging at the ground level. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The building has ashlar coped skews and is topped with grey slates.
Inside, there is a turned timber dog-leg stair and large rooms on each floor with compartmented ceilings.
Local climate
19 Thistle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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