114, 116, 118 West Bow, 112B, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

114, 116, 118 West Bow, 112B, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
pitched-rubblework-elm
Grade
B
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
Address
114, 116, 118 West Bow, 112B, Edinburgh, EH1 2HH
OS grid reference
NT 255 734
Coordinates
55.94797, -3.19407
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 114, 116, 118 West Bow and 112B in Edinburgh, is a later 18th century terraced tenement block that stands five storeys tall with an attic and features four bays. The ground floor includes shops and is finished in painted ashlar. There is a round-arched opening at the ground floor level. The first floor has a cill band, while the second, third, and fourth floors have projecting cills, topped by an eaves cornice. The building has long and short quoins and a two-window nepus gable, with the window to the right being blind. The outer left and right sides have piend-roofed slated dormers.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. At the apex, there is a corniced stack with circular cans.

Local climate

114, 116, 118 West Bow, 112B, 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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