35-43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement and shops. 4 related planning applications.

35-43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lunar-rubble-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement and shops
Address
35-43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB
OS grid reference
NT 260 730
Coordinates
55.94468, -3.18545
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

35-43 West Nicolson Street is a classical tenement building and shops, constructed around 1815. It is four stories high and features twelve bays. The building is made of ashlar stone and has cast iron balconies on the first and second floors of numbers 35 to 45. The ground floor includes round arched openings.

Local climate

35-43 West Nicolson 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Pear Tree, 34, 36, 38 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 29 m
  2. 19 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 30 m
  3. 17 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 39 m
  4. Chapel House, Chapel Street, Edinburgh Grade B 40 m
  5. 15 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 45 m
  6. 11 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 55 m
  7. 1 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 75 m
  8. Buccleuch And Greyfriars Free Church, West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh Grade B 81 m
  9. Community Centre, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Grade B 92 m
  10. Nicolson Square Methodist Chapel, Nicolson Square, Edinburgh Grade A 92 m