18-22 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Commercial.

18-22 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
bitter-zinc-pigeon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
NT 260 730
Coordinates
55.94471, -3.18484
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18-22 West Nicolson Street in Edinburgh is a building dating from 1824, with alterations made in 1892. It features a tall single-storey painted droved ashlar screen wall facing West Nicolson Street. The wall includes a pilastered semi-circular archway with two orders of engaged shafts, and there is one door in the advanced market entrance bay. On the western quadrant, there is one door and one window bar, leading to a single-storey office on the eastern side that linked with now-demolished buildings on the northern side of Gray's Court. Additionally, there is a segmentally arched gateway with a single order of shafts and a blank panel above, all part of the short droved ashlar screen wall that once led to Gray's Court.

Local climate

18-22 West Nicolson 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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