York Place is located within Edinburgh’s New Town and the area provides a mixture of commercial office and residential properties. The site for the project, 41a York Place, a traditional mid terrace Georgian townhouse, was used as office space although originally designed as a residential townhouse. It was listed as a category A building in 1966, is located within the New Town Conservation Area and forms part of Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site.

When our client purchased the property the brief for the project was to convert the second, third and fourth floors of the building from office space back to high end residential units. The ambitions for this project were to reinstate this building back to its originally intended use as a residential townhouse. In order to fully understand this project, we needed to understand the original townhouse typology typical of this area of Edinburgh in order to make educated decisions when designing.

The second and third floor of the existing building has been designed such that all of the historic fabric of the building is retained most notably the principal rooms overlooking York Place. As part of our initial site visit we discovered an extensive loft space which has been converted to accommodate a staircase and two additional bedrooms for the unit below. This project is a combination of part restoration, conversion and modern intervention typical of the Edinburgh area.

After a two-year construction period, the apartments were completed in the Spring of 2022 and currently being marketed and sold by Knight Frank.