87-87A West Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 April 1969. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
87-87A West Bow, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- shifting-paling-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1969
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 87-87A West Bow, Edinburgh, EH1 2JP
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 734
- Coordinates
- 55.9484, -3.19469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
87-87A West Bow in Edinburgh is a tenement block designed by George Smith in 1850. The building features four storeys and an attic on the left side, while the right side has three storeys. It has three bays and is stepped to accommodate the slope of the street. The exterior is finished in cream coursed ashlar.
There is a door to the flats on the left, and the shopfront on the right has a dentilled cornice. The shopfront includes a two-leaf glazed door flanked by windows with timber surrounds. The left side has four single windows leading to the stairwell, along with a small window in a crowstepped gabled dormer. The right side features paired windows. The eaves cornice extends over the two right bays, and there are railings leading to Victoria Terrace.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a corniced ridge stack with circular cans.
Local climate
87-87A 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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