156-158 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
156-158 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- open-garret-moon
- 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
- 156-158 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94977, -3.18893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
156-158 High Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey, seven-bay tenement building dating from 1825, which incorporates earlier materials. The building features a distinctive round-arched window treatment on the right side of the first floor. The ground floor has pilastered timber shop fronts, while the first floor is finished in painted ashlar with raised cills. At No 156, there is a Langley-Gothick doorway inscribed 'Mary's Chapel'. A narrow round-arched pend opening in the center leads to Covenant Close. The first floor has five round-arched openings with Y-tracery glazing that alternate in size, framed by balustraded, pilastered, and corniced moulding in the center three bays. To the left, there are a pair of bi-partite piended dormers, and to the right, there are two single dormers.
The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a Scottish slate roof, and particularly broad brick and ashlar stacks. It also includes clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
156-158 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 — 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
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