233-241 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement, public house. 6 related planning applications.

233-241 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gaunt-forge-mallow
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement, public house
Address
233-241 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PE
OS grid reference
NT 258 736
Coordinates
55.95011, -3.18933
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 233-241 High Street in Edinburgh, dates from around 1795 and includes some earlier elements. It is a four-storey and attic, six-bay tenement that features a public house on the ground and first floors. The exterior is primarily constructed of ashlar, with rubble on the sides. There are cill courses on the second and third floors, and the second floor has balustraded windows in three bays on the left. Above this, there is a three-window pedimented dormer, and to the right, a piend-roofed timber dormer.

The public house has a two-storey elevation, with a corniced and consoled ground floor, and Ionic pilasters, a cornice, and pediments on the first floor. There is a gated pend to the right leading to Geddes Entry, and a rubble wall to Anchor Close with brick buildings situated behind it. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, although the public house features modern glazing. The building also has corniced end and ridge stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

233-241 High 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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