5, 7 West Register Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Commercial building.
5, 7 West Register Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ragged-terrace-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 5, 7 West Register Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95366, -3.19037
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 and 7 West Register Street in Edinburgh is a late 18th century building that has seen various additions and alterations over the years. It is a three-storey corner block that includes early mews buildings. The ground floor features shops, while the first floor houses a public bar. The later third storey serves as a function room for the adjoining Cafe Royal, which is listed separately.
The west elevation has an irregular five-bay layout. On the ground floor, there is a café to the left, access to the first floor in the center, and a shop window to the right. The first floor has moulded ashlar architraves, and there is a raised wallhead at the second floor.
The south elevation is irregular with six bays. It has two shops on the ground floor, while the second floor is mostly blank, featuring just one window to the right.
The building has timber sash and case windows with four panes and plate glass. It has a piended roof covered with grey slates and a truncated wallhead stack.
The interior has been significantly altered, with the second floor dedicated to the Cafe Royal function room, which is also listed separately.
Local climate
5, 7 West Register 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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