110, 112 West Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement block. 4 related planning applications.

110, 112 West Bow, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
other-barrel-merlin
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 block
Address
110, 112 West Bow, Edinburgh, EH1 2HH
OS grid reference
NT 255 734
Coordinates
55.94806, -3.19413
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 110 and 112 West Bow in Edinburgh, is a later 18th century terraced tenement block that rises five storeys with an attic and features a restaurant on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in ashlar, which is painted at the ground level. To the outer right, there is an arched pend leading to Edmonstone's Close. The building has a cill band at the first floor and projecting cills at the second, third, and fourth floors. It displays long and short quoins and a round-arched entrance in the second bay from the left, which is flanked by round-arched windows that have modern glazing. The fenestration above is regular, and there are two 3-light dormers in the attic. Inside Edmonstone's Close, there is a six-storey rubble drum staircase with timber panelled doors at the ground level (112B), along with a three-storey former warehouse to the right and earlier warehouses located to the rear. The building features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, a roof covered with grey slates, and corniced end stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

110, 112 West Bow, 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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