City Art Centre, 1-6 Market Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Art gallery. 10 related planning applications.
City Art Centre, 1-6 Market Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- rooted-brick-elder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Art gallery
- Address
- City Art Centre, 1-6 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95097, -3.18919
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The City Art Centre, located at 1-6 Market Street in Edinburgh, is a Baroque art gallery designed by James Dunn and James Findlay between 1899 and 1902, with some later alterations. The building features six stories and an attic, arranged in a five-bay layout. At the ground level, there is a two-storey arcade supported by octagonal piers. To the left, a two-storey link connects to the Scotsman building, which includes a round-arched entrance to Fleshmarket Close.
Architectural details include a dentilled cornice above the second floor, a cill course at the sixth floor, and a modillioned eaves cornice. The attic is adorned with five bipartite dormer windows, each featuring alternate triangular and segmental pediments, linked by a balustraded balcony. The first, second, and third floors have tripartite windows with blocked Roman Doric mullions set in segmental-arched recesses, while the sixth floor displays blocked Roman Doric colonnettes.
The building also showcases small-pane glazing, cast-iron downpipes with decorative hoppers, and a corniced, bow-ended end stack with circular cans.
Local climate
City Art Centre, 1-6 Market 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 — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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