Post Office, 62-70 Henderson Row, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 9 related planning applications.

Post Office, 62-70 Henderson Row, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gaunt-rampart-marsh
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
Post Office, 62-70 Henderson Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5BJ
OS grid reference
NT 248 747
Coordinates
55.96005, -3.20592
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office at 62-70 Henderson Row in Edinburgh was built around 1863. It is a four-storey, four-bay plain classical tenement constructed from ashlar. The outer bays feature tripartite windows, while the first-floor windows are architraved and topped with cornices. The ground floor of number 68 is currently used as a shop.

Local climate

Post Office, 62-70 Henderson Row, 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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