101, 103 West Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 April 1969. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
101, 103 West Bow, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- last-niche-starling
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1969
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 101, 103 West Bow, Edinburgh, EH1 2JP
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94808, -3.19485
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
101 and 103 West Bow in Edinburgh is a late 17th to early 18th century tenement building that stands three stories tall with an attic and features five bays. The building has a shop on the ground floor and is stepped to follow the slope of the street. It is finished in yellow harling with stone margins and includes a base course and a continuous hoodmould over the shop openings.
A steep forestair with spiral cast-iron railings is located to the right, leading to a timber boarded door with decorative cast-iron hinges that provides access to the flats on the first floor. The upper storeys have windows grouped in pairs, with a single small window above the door. The crowstepped wallhead gable features two windows topped with fleur-de-lys finials, and there is a square opening above that has been blocked, which previously ventilated the roof space.
The building has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows and is covered with graded grey slates.
Local climate
101, 103 West Bow, 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 — 2 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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