63 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 June 1996. Tenement block.
63 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- kindled-lancet-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1996
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 63 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2HJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94742, -3.19511
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
63 Grassmarket in Edinburgh is a four-storey, four-bay tenement block designed by David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross in 1875, with later alterations and additions by James Jerdan in 1889. The building features shops on the ground floor and a round-arched pend, known as Gilmour's Close, at the center. It is constructed of coursed ashlar with polished dressings, although the ground floor is painted.
Distinctive architectural details include a moulded cill course at the first and third floors, original shop fronts with shoulder-arched openings, and windows with corniced surrounds at the first floor. The second floor has tabbed windows, and paired windows are found in finialled gabled dormerheads, with a crowstepped gable to the right. Decorative panels in the gables are dated 1998 to the left. A centrally located wallhead stack is decoratively corbelled.
The building features four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows and is topped with grey slates. The wallhead and ridge stacks are corniced and chamfered, adorned with decorative circular cans. At the rear, modern harled flats adjoin the building, accessible via Gilmour's Close.
Local climate
63 Grassmarket, 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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