1 And 2 Chessel's Court (W Block), Canongate is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
1 And 2 Chessel's Court (W Block), Canongate
- WRENN ID
- iron-quartz-heath
- 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
- 1 And 2 Chessel's Court (W Block), Canongate, EH8 8AD
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95085, -3.18304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 and 2 Chessel's Court, known as the W Block, is a pair of fine, adjoining tenement buildings dating from around 1770. They are prominently located on the west side of Chessel's Court and were restored in 1963-64 by Robert Hurd and Partners. The buildings are constructed from harled and painted rubble with ashlar dressings.
The south block is three stories tall with an attic and basement, featuring a four-bay principal elevation. It has an L-plan forestair leading up to a central two-leaf timber door with a box fan-light and a moulded architrave. The central gable has a wallhead with a coped stack at the apex, and there are later cat-slide dormers on either side. The rear of this block is four stories high, with a full-height stair outshot at the fourth bay.
The north block is four stories tall and includes a canted, full-height stairtower at the fourth bay. The south gable end has small windows on each floor to the right, while the rear elevation features irregular groupings of small windows on each floor.
Both blocks predominantly have 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, end stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
1 And 2 Chessel's Court (W Block), Canongate 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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