209 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.

209 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
under-wall-burdock
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
209 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PE
OS grid reference
NT 258 736
Coordinates
55.95025, -3.18874
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

211-213 High Street in Edinburgh is an early 18th century tenement that includes elements from earlier periods. This six-storey building has an attic and features five bays, with a shop located on the ground floor. The structure is made of random rubble with ashlar dressings and has a cavetto eaves course. There is a four-window dormer in the attic. To the right, there is a pend leading to Jackson's Close, along with modern access balconies and part of a circular stair at the rear. A lower narrow block runs north, bordered by Jackson's Close and Lyon's Close, and it adjoins No 48 Cockburn Street, which is listed separately. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing.

Local climate

209 High Street, 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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