8 Canon Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Building. 2 related planning applications.

8 Canon Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-barrel-woodpecker
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Building
Address
8 Canon Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5HE
OS grid reference
NT 252 749
Coordinates
55.96197, -3.19863
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 Canon Street is a building from the mid-19th century. It has three storeys and a basement, featuring four windows and a central door. The ground floor and basement are made of ashlar stone, while the upper part is constructed from coursed rubble. There is a belt course at the first floor and a string course at the second floor, along with long and short dressings and corbelled cills. The roof is slated.

Local climate

8 Canon 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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