12-14 Howden Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenements. 4 related planning applications.
12-14 Howden Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- carved-cupola-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenements
- Address
- 12-14 Howden Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9HL
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 729
- Coordinates
- 55.94425, -3.18214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12-14 Howden Street in Edinburgh is a group of baronial-style tenements designed by T P Marwick between 1885 and 1888. The buildings are three stories tall with a mansard attic and feature ground floor shops. They are constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and moulded openings, topped with slated roofs. The three blocks are stepped down the slope to Howden Street, with the central block featuring a gable. The right-hand block has a prominent Early Renaissance central corbelled chimney shaft.
The east elevation exhibits an elaborate asymmetrical design with a near-central curvilinear gable, while the eastern corner is curved and features corbelled detailing that transitions to a square shape, flanked by colonettes with sculptured capitals on the second floor and a scrolled, segmentally pedimented attic gable. The western corner at Howden Street is designed as an octagon, also corbelled diagonally to a square and gabled, with a richly decorated swagged gable adjacent to the eastern corner.
While the buildings display good architectural detail, some chimney heads along Howden Street are in need of restoration.
Local climate
12-14 Howden Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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