56, 56A Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Tenement.

56, 56A Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sharp-corridor-dawn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Tenement
Address
56, 56A Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QE
OS grid reference
NT 256 733
Coordinates
55.94727, -3.19203
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

56 and 56A Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh is a four-storey, three-bay, two-window tenement building designed by Thomas Brown in 1855, likely incorporating earlier elements. The building features coursed squared sandstone with painted ashlar at the ground level and random rubble at the rear. It has a base course and projecting cills on the upper windows.

The ground floor includes a modern boarded timber door leading to flats on the left and a modern glazed timber door for the shop, which has a plate glass fanlight and is flanked by modern shop windows. The centre bay above the ground floor is blank, and there is a wallhead stack.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The front has a broad central wallhead stack, while the rear features a cement rendered wallhead stack.

Local climate

56, 56A Candlemaker Row, 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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