Boswell's Court, 352 Castlehill, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

Boswell's Court, 352 Castlehill, Edinburgh

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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
Address
Boswell's Court, 352 Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NF
OS grid reference
NT 254 735
Coordinates
55.94878, -3.19564
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Boswell's Court, located at 352 Castlehill in Edinburgh, is an early 17th-century tenement that has undergone later alterations, including work by Hardy and Wight in 1895. The building stands four storeys high with an attic and features a seven-bay layout. It is constructed of sandstone with ashlar dressings, has a stuccoed and channelled ground floor, and is harled on the sides and rear. Moulded string courses run between the floors, and red sandstone long and short quoins are present.

The north elevation facing Castlehill is regularly fenestrated. The ground floor was altered in 1895, with an architraved and corniced surround to the close entry on the outer left. The attic features five dormer-headed windows with finials, with three on the right side separated from two on the left by a later wallhead stack.

On the east elevation, which faces Boswell's Close, there are two gabled bays with apex stacks and small irregular windows. A carved lintel marks the stair entrance, which is accessed through a timber panelled door in a roll-moulded surround.

The south elevation at the rear has two harled gabled bays with apex stacks and is irregularly fenestrated, with the left bay featuring a crowstepped gable. The building has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, and corniced end and wallhead stacks with circular cans. Stone skews are also present.

Local climate

Boswell's Court, 352 Castlehill, 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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