246, 248 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

246, 248 Canongate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
peeling-postern-spindle
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
246, 248 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8AA
OS grid reference
NT 262 736
Coordinates
55.95061, -3.18319
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

246 and 248 Canongate in Edinburgh is a tenement building dating from around 1750, which was restored in 1955 by Robert Hurd. This four-storey structure features an attic and has three bays, with a two-light wallhead gable at the center and a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is made of harled rubble with ashlar dressings. There is a squared pend on the ground floor to the left, leading to Pirrie's Close. The shop front to the right has a later addition with a fixed plate-glass window. The rear of the building has been rebuilt and includes an octagonal stair outshot on the left bay.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case types with horns. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are ashlar skews and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

246, 248 Canongate, 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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