62 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 2009. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

62 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sleeping-entrance-vetch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 2009
Type
Commercial building
Address
62 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 1AN
OS grid reference
NT 303 740
Coordinates
55.95474, -3.11705
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

62 Portobello High Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay classical building located at the corner of Portobello High Street and Pipe Street, on a sloping site that falls to the southeast. The building is constructed of droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings on the first floor, while the southeast elevation features rubble, and the rear is harled. There is a bull-face render addition at the rear, along with a base course, a band course between the ground and first floor, a cill course to the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course.

The southwest elevation, which is the principal front, has a chamfered corner bay on the left with a shop entrance at ground level and a window above on the first floor. The central and right bays also have shop windows at ground level, with a 1950s-style shop sign (Laundrette) on the fascia. The first floor features windows in each bay.

The northwest elevation, facing Pipe Street, has irregularly placed bays with a shop window in the ground centre bay and to the right. There is a blank window in the first floor of the right bay, while the remaining bays have windows on the first floor.

The northeast elevation includes a two-storey later addition in the centre. The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows on the southwest side, and four-pane timber sash and case windows on the northwest side. The roof is a grey slate piended type, with rendered and coped wallhead stacks located on the outer right and between the centre and left bay of the northwest elevation, as well as on the outer right of the northeast elevation and continuously along the southeast elevation.

The interior was not seen in 1994, but it is noted that the shop interior has been modernised.

Local climate

62 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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