16, 18, 20 Robertson's Close, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981. Tenement.

16, 18, 20 Robertson's Close, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sleeping-pediment-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1981
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 260 734
Coordinates
55.94826, -3.18602
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

16, 18, 20 Robertson's Close is a three-storey, seven-bay tenement building dating from the early to mid 18th century. It features a central projecting polygonal stairtower and has been converted into flats by Nicholas Groves-Raines between 1981 and 1982. The exterior is made of harled rubble with chamfered margins, and there is a central crow-stepped chimney gable at the rear facing Niddry Street. The building also has late 20th century piended dormers.

Local climate

16, 18, 20 Robertson's Close, 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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