160A Canongate, 154-158, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
160A Canongate, 154-158, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gutter-bistre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1987
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 160A Canongate, 154-158, Edinburgh, EH8 8DD
- OS grid reference
- NT 264 737
- Coordinates
- 55.9513, -3.1798
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
160A Canongate is a mid 19th century, three-storey, seven-bay tenement that serves both commercial and residential purposes. The building features a symmetrical design with a voussoired pend and a two-storey corniced oriel window. The central bay has a crow-stepped attic gable topped with a star finial, and the ground floor is flanked by shops. The structure is built of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and painted ashlar at the ground level. It has moulded margins and buckle quoins, with a cornice separating the ground and first floors and an eaves course above. A carved panel is located between the storeys of the oriel window. The shops have architraved doors and windows, along with panelled timber doors. The rear elevation includes stair windows between floors and some later alterations at the ground level.
The upper floors feature eight and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, while the shops have fixed plate-glass windows with a six-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with Scottish slate, and there are broad end stacks along with an additional axial stack in the attic. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
160A Canongate, 154-158, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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