148, 150, 152 And 154 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. 5 related planning applications.

148, 150, 152 And 154 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-railing-marsh
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
148, 150, 152 And 154 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
OS grid reference
NT 258 736
Coordinates
55.94975, -3.18887
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

148, 150, 152 and 154 High Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century tenement that incorporates earlier materials. It is a five-storey, five-bay building featuring a central Classical doorpiece adorned with an oyster shell motif. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar with raised cills. The ground floor has later shopfronts, and there is a round-arched opening on the far left that leads to Bell's Wynd.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a single piended-roof dormer situated between the third and fourth bays, and is covered with Scottish slate. Notably, it has particularly broad brick and ashlar stacks, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

148, 150, 152 And 154 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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