194 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.
194 Canongate, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- muffled-doorway-vale
- Grade
- B
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95085, -3.18182
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
194 Canongate in Edinburgh is a 17th-century tenement that was partially reconstructed in 1956-1957 by Gordon and Dey. The building is two stories high, with an attic and garrett, and features a symmetrical five-bay design with a central round-arched pend. It is constructed of harled rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and raised margins, and has an exposed rubble base-course. The gablets at the second floor are pedimented and finialled, and smaller dormers are set within the pitch of the roof above. At the rear, there is a turnpike stair tower and an additional three-story wing to the left of Playhouse Close.
Inside, the building was extensively modernised in 1968 to accommodate the Moray House Institute of Education, which includes classrooms, staff studies, and a proscenium theatre. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with Scottish slate. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
194 Canongate, 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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