Skinner's Close, 44-46 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
Skinner's Close, 44-46 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- errant-cobble-martin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- Skinner's Close, 44-46 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TB
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 736
- Coordinates
- 55.9503, -3.18567
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Skinner's Close, located at 44-46 High Street in Edinburgh, is a four-storey and attic tenement built in 1887, designed by T P Marwick based on a design by David Cousin and John Lessels. This three-bay building features a Scots Baronial style, with shops on the ground floor. The first floor is finished in polished ashlar, while the upper levels are constructed from squared and snecked, stugged sandstone with polished dressings.
Notable architectural features include a pair of shouldered tripartite windows on the first floor, which have a rope-moulded crest at the center. There is a deep moulded string course between the first and second floors, and the attic has a corbel table with a central crow-stepped wallhead gable that includes an apex stack, flanked by crow-stepped dormer heads. The shop fronts are painted, and the building has timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing. The roof is covered with Scottish slate, and there are broad harled axial stacks, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Skinner's Close, 44-46 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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