94 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 10 related planning applications.
94 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sharp-lintel-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 94 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JR
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94794, -3.19509
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
94 Grassmarket in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic tenement building designed by John Lessels in 1890, which incorporates older elements. The building features a single bay with a crow-stepped gable topped with a finial and includes a pend, known as Currie's Close, to the left at the ground floor. It is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings.
Architectural details include moulded cill courses on the first and second floors, as well as a moulded string course between the ground and first floors and between the second floor and attic. The windows have chamfered surrounds, and there is a prominent three-light oriel window at the first floor, which has "MISSION HALL" in gilded letters below it. This oriel features chamfered ogee-arched windows. The second floor has a hoodmoulded three-light ogee-arched window with carved label stops and a decorative motif above it, while the gable has a single ogee-arched window.
At the ground floor, there are modern doors with leaded glazing in the fanlights. The building has timber sash and case windows with lying-pane glazing and is covered with graded grey slates.
Local climate
94 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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