96, 96A Grassmarket Mission, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement.
96, 96A Grassmarket Mission, Edinburgh
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94809, -3.19503
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 96 and 96A Grassmarket Mission in Edinburgh is a late 19th-century tenement that stands three storeys tall with an attic and features a public house on the ground floor. It is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked cream sandstone, accented with polished dressings. There are moulded string courses that run between the ground and first floors, as well as between the first and second floors, with the centre bay stepping up. The roof is swept, and the ground floor has modern glazing and doors. The first and second floors have shoulder-arched windows. The attic features two crowstepped gabled dormers. The upper sashes of the timber sash and case windows have 6-pane glazing, while the lower sashes are fitted with plate glass. The roof is covered with graded grey slates.
Local climate
96, 96A Grassmarket Mission, 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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