70, 72 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 7 related planning applications.

70, 72 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
stony-keystone-heron
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
70, 72 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JR
OS grid reference
NT 254 734
Coordinates
55.94784, -3.19555
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

70 and 72 Grassmarket is a late 18th-century, four-storey and attic tenement building featuring six bays and a shop on the ground floor. The building has a four-windowed nepus gable with an apex stack. The exterior is finished in droved ashlar, which is painted on the ground and first floors. The shop front has been modernized. Above the shop, the windows are regularly spaced and have projecting cills. The upper floors feature later four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced end and apex stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

70, 72 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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