Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970.

Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 Canongate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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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
OS grid reference
NT 265 738
Coordinates
55.95229, -3.1778
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The East Wing of Canongate Manse, located at 95 Canongate in Edinburgh, is an early 18th-century building that was restored by Ian Gordon Lindsay and Partners in 1958, with further restoration in 2002. This classical manse is two stories high and features five bays, with piend-roofed wings that create a U-shape, set back from the street. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings, raised margins, and quoins. The central entrance has a four-panel timber door topped by a rectangular fanlight. The ground floor at the rear includes mullioned tripartite windows with narrow margins. There is a two-storey stair projection at the rear center and a 21st-century single-storey extension to the right.

Inside, the layout is symmetrical, with staircases on both the left and right sides of the building, although the right staircase is now blocked. The first-floor room features fine 18th-century panelling and scalloped shelving, along with some ornamental plasterwork fire surrounds and cornicing. A broad turnpike stair at the rear leads up to the attic level.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is roofed with grey Scottish slate. The main block has ashlar skews with ornamental scrolled skewputts, end stacks, and tall stacks on the outer wings, along with clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of substantial, tall, square gatepiers with moulded coping and pyramid caps, accompanied by low, squared rubble walls. There are later cast-iron gates featuring a shield crest and railings.

Local climate

Canongate Manse, Reid's Court, 95 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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