173 Causewayside, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996.

173 Causewayside, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
muted-facade-candle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
OS grid reference
NT 263 720
Coordinates
55.93594, -3.17974
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

175, 177, 179 Causewayside in Edinburgh is a classical tenement building dating from around 1835. It stands four storeys high and features twelve bays. The ground floor has shopfronts for Nos 175-179, with a pend leading to a recessed bay between Nos 169 and 173. The building is constructed of droved cream sandstone, with ashlar used for the ground floor and dressings, while the side and rear are made of rubble. It includes a base course, a band course, and cill courses for the first and fourth floor windows, topped with a cornice and blocking course. The shopfronts are painted.

On the west elevation, there are two shops on the right side at ground level, each with a window. The left shop has panelled double doors, and there is a tenement door with a tripartite fanlight situated between the shops (No 177). Additionally, there is a door in the penultimate bay to the left, which features a plate glass fanlight. The upper floors have a regular arrangement of windows, predominantly consisting of twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, with some plate glass. Notably, the single windows above the tenement door (No 177) have been made bipartite to accommodate the stairway.

Local climate

173 Causewayside, 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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