28-30 Howden Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Commercial.

28-30 Howden Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fallen-arch-raven
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Commercial
Address
28-30 Howden Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9HL
OS grid reference
NT 262 730
Coordinates
55.94443, -3.1823
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28-30 Howden Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey building constructed in 1887. It features a main frontage with 14 windows made of bull-faced coursers. At the southern end, there is a pend leading to Hardwell Close, and at the northern end, there are two further set-back bays, which also include a pend. The building has segment-headed windows and an asymmetrically placed doorpiece that is both gabled and segment-headed. The crowstepped gable is situated over the two central bays, flanked by crowstepped gablets.

Local climate

28-30 Howden 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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