The Beehive Inn, 18, 20, 22, 24 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Beehive Inn, 18, 20, 22, 24 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wall-sienna
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Beehive Inn, 18, 20, 22, 24 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94748, -3.19713
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Beehive Inn is a public house located at 18, 20, 22, and 24 Grassmarket in Edinburgh, designed by John Paterson in 1868. This three-storey building features a five-bay irregular terrace constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, with polished dressings that have been painted at the ground floor.
The structure includes a base course and a cornice at the ground floor, along with a polished band above that features a carved beehive motif at the center. There is a moulded band between the first and second floors, which steps up over a carved date panel in the center. The second-floor windows have bracketed projecting cills, and the central window is framed with a moulded surround. The eaves cornice is also moulded.
The ground floor is pilastraded, with a timber panelled door in a modern decorative surround at the center and another timber panelled door to the outer right. The central bay has a crowstepped gable topped with a rendered apex stack and a thistle finial, which was formerly a chimney with cans.
The ground floor windows have 12-pane glazing, while the windows above have modern glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
The Beehive Inn, 18, 20, 22, 24 Grassmarket, 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 — 6 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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