Clinic, 14-20 Cowgate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Former church. 6 related planning applications.

Clinic, 14-20 Cowgate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
weathered-floor-heath
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Former church
Address
Clinic, 14-20 Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1JX
OS grid reference
NT 255 734
Coordinates
55.94813, -3.19351
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building at 14-20 Cowgate in Edinburgh, designed by Patrick Wilson in 1861, was originally a church and hall but is now a clinic. It features Gothic architecture with an octagonal entrance tower made of squared and snecked stugged ashlar. The entrance has a two-leaf timber boarded door with decorative cast-iron hinges, set within a hoodmoulded pointed-arched surround that is flanked by columns with stiff leaf capitals. The entrance tower includes angle buttresses and a hoodmoulded carved panel with carved labelstops. The square-plan vestibule rises to the octagonal tower, which has a lancet window at the first stage, louvred lancets on each side of the upper stage, and a pierced parapet. Behind the entrance, the pitch-roofed nave of the church is lit by tall windows with small leaded pane glazing. The gable end of the hall to the left has been altered at the ground floor, with two shoulder-arched windows that are blocked at the first floor, and a bipartite window in the gable.

The east elevation features a rubble-built east wall of the east transept, which shows two two-light windows with multifoils and a small window in the gable. The roof is covered with grey slates and has stone skews. The interior was not seen in 2000.

Local climate

Clinic, 14-20 Cowgate, 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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