57 And 59 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 11 related planning applications.
57 And 59 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- bitter-moulding-torch
- 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
- 57 And 59 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95064, -3.18533
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
57 and 59 High Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey, five-bay plain classical tenement built around 1845, with some earlier elements incorporated into its structure. The building features a modern shopfront at the ground level, while an older range is located at the rear. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar with raised margins, and it includes a band course between the first and second floors, a cill course to the second floor, an eaves course, and a blocking course. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern.
At the rear, there is an earlier three-storey and attic range that has a mansard roof with dormers, situated on a sloping site. This section is constructed of random rubble and also features regular fenestration, dressed margins, and blocked openings at the ground level.
The first and second floors have timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing, while the shop front is made of modern plate glass. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slate, and the mansard roof is felted with slate on the lower sections.
Local climate
57 And 59 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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