Cadell House, Panmure Close, 129 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Townhouse.

Cadell House, Panmure Close, 129 Canongate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
forbidden-cobalt-blackthorn
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
Townhouse
OS grid reference
NT 265 738
Coordinates
55.952, -3.17856
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cadell House is a mid 18th century townhouse located at 129 Canongate in Edinburgh. It is a symmetrical, three-storey building with a six-bay rectangular plan and a piended roof. The exterior is constructed of random-rubble stone with ashlar dressings, featuring raised, chamfered margins and roughly tooled quions. The east elevation has regular window placement, while the west elevation is irregular. There is a doorway on the south elevation, positioned at the far left.

The windows are predominantly multi-pane timber sash and case. The house has a central ridge stack and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Cadell House, Panmure Close, 129 Canongate, 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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