137 Constitution Street is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.

137 Constitution Street

WRENN ID
half-plaster-fen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Warehouse
OS grid reference
NT 271 760
Coordinates
55.97167, -3.16946
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

137 Constitution Street is a five-storey, seven-bay warehouse built in 1887 by James Bow Dunn. It features a single-storey outbuilding at the rear, which was formerly used for drying, cutting, and smoking, along with a covered court. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with coursed and squared stugged rubble and droved ashlar dressings, while the rear is made of squared and snecked rubble. The front elevation has raised margins.

The northwest (front) elevation displays regular fenestration and includes a large segmental-arched corniced ashlar doorway located to the left of the center. This doorway features a roll-moulded arch with a carved keystone, deeply chamfered moulded reveals, and a tripartite timber door with round-arched bays, a two-leaf panelled door, panelled aprons, and a plate glass fanlight. Above this doorway, there is a window at the first floor with a shouldered architrave, scroll-flanked and pedimented. The wallhead above is raised in a gable with angled skew blocks and an apex stack.

The southeast (rear) elevation has five bays and regular windows. There is a bay to the right of center that breaks the eaves, featuring a small gable and hoist doors, which are now bricked-up. The single-storey outbuildings at the rear form a link with the tenements at Nos 12 and 13 Wellington Place. The ground floor of the front elevation has plate glass sash and case windows, while the other windows are four-pane fixed timber. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashings, along with one apex stack. The eaves gutter is moulded and supported by cast-iron brackets. The interior was not seen in 1993.

Local climate

137 Constitution Street 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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