8 East Claremont Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1965. Terrace of houses.
8 East Claremont Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- errant-rubble-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1965
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 748
- Coordinates
- 55.96091, -3.19261
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 East Claremont Street in Edinburgh is a classical terrace of houses built between 1860 and 1869 by John Chesser. This two-storey building features 39 bays, with Nos 2-6 forming a bowed corner that continues the design of Bellevue Place. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar and includes architraved margins, a base course, bracketed cills at the ground floor, a cill band at the first floor, an eaves cornice parapet, and a blocking course. The windows have tall, narrow proportions, with the first-floor windows being taller.
On the principal (west) elevation, there are timber panelled doors with fanlights in architraved entrances located in bays 3, 4, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 25, 30, 34, and 37. The remaining bays feature regular fenestration above, and there is a bipartite box dormer at No 18. The windows are timber sash and case with 4-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar ridge stacks with terracotta cans, rooflights, and non-continuous cast-iron railings.
The interior was not seen in 1998. The site is enclosed by low coped ashlar boundary walls.
Local climate
8 East Claremont 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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