85, 87, 89 Lothian Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.

85, 87, 89 Lothian Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
carved-flue-wren
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement
Address
85, 87, 89 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AW
OS grid reference
NT 248 732
Coordinates
55.94658, -3.20542
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

85, 87, 89 Lothian Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey, five-bay plain classical terraced tenement designed by David MacGibbon in 1864. The building features coursed ashlar that is painted black at the first floor. It has a cornice above the shops on the ground floor, a cill course at the third floor level, and a moulded eaves cornice. The ground floor includes modern shop fronts and a modern door leading to the upper storeys located in the centre bay.

The windows on the first and second floors have lugged and bracketed surrounds, while the outer bays feature bipartite windows. The building has plate glass in timber sash and case windows. There is a shouldered wallhead stack with circular cans, along with corniced ridge stacks that also have circular cans.

Local climate

85, 87, 89 Lothian Road, 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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