142-144 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.
142-144 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- shifting-brass-hazel
- 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
- 142-144 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94979, -3.18873
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
142-144 High Street in Edinburgh is an early 19th-century tenement building that stands five stories tall and features five bays. The central entrance is notable for its Ionic columns and pediment, leading into New Assembly Close. The ground floor accommodates shops, while the building is constructed from sandstone ashlar with raised cills. The upper floors have half-blind openings at the central stair bay.
At No 144, there is a painted, double-height shop front that includes a Diocletian window on the first floor, along with decorative spandrels and classical detailing. The outer bays are topped with a pair of piended-roof dormers. The windows throughout are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with Scottish slate, and the building features particularly broad brick and harled stacks with clay cans, as well as cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
142-144 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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