60 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. 1 related planning application.

60 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
solemn-chamber-hawthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Address
60 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QE
OS grid reference
NT 256 733
Coordinates
55.94733, -3.19221
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

62 Candlemaker Row is an early 19th century tenement building, likely incorporating some earlier materials. It is a four-storey, four-bay structure with shops on the ground floor. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings, while the shops feature painted ashlar. The sides and rear are constructed from random rubble. Notable architectural features include a cornice at the ground floor, projecting cills on the windows, a cill course at the second floor, and eaves with blocking courses. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, with a blind bay to the right of the centre. The ground floor bays, from left to right, consist of a shop window and door, a door to the flats, another shop window, a door, and two windows. There is an original street name tablet with incised script.

While the original openings remain, the shops have modern glazing and doors. The upper floors and rear feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a corniced cement-rendered ridge stack that is flush with the rear wall, complete with circular cans, as well as a stone skew.

Local climate

60 Candlemaker Row, 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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