The Clydesdale Inn, 26-28 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 September 1988. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
The Clydesdale Inn, 26-28 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- late-rampart-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 September 1988
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- The Clydesdale Inn, 26-28 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JU
- OS grid reference
- NT 253 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94749, -3.19706
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clydesdale Inn, located at 26-28 Grassmarket in Edinburgh, dates from around 1800. This four-storey, four-bay tenement features shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of droved ashlar with polished dressings, although the ground floor has been painted. It has a moulded cornice at the ground floor with a polished band above, polished cill bands on the second and third floors, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course.
At the center, there is a timber panelled door leading to the flats, with two windows to the left, which are now part of the Beehive Inn, and two windows flanking the door to the shop on the right. The second floor is adorned with decorative cast-iron window guards. The ground floor features modern glazing, while the upper floors have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are stone skews and corniced stacks.
Local climate
The Clydesdale Inn, 26-28 Grassmarket, 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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