168, 170, 172 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement.
168, 170, 172 Canongate, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- nether-gargoyle-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 263 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95115, -3.18026
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
168, 170, 172 Canongate in Edinburgh is a three-storey and attic, five-bay tenement built in 1876, showcasing a symmetrical Scots Baronial style that combines both commercial and residential elements. The building features a central crow-stepped gable, which is flanked by dormers that have pediments and rose finials. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with roll-moulded ashlar dressings.
At the attic level, the building is corbelled out, with a moulded eaves course that drops below the dormers. The ground floor includes shops with distinctive shouldered architrave mouldings around the doors and windows, and features two-leaf timber panelled doors. The central bay has blind windows.
The upper floors are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the shops have plate glass fixed windows. The roof is covered with Scottish slate, and there are end stacks that were rebuilt in ashlar around 1965. The building also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
168, 170, 172 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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