76, 78, 80, 82, 84 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

76, 78, 80, 82, 84 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
far-attic-violet
Grade
C
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 building
Address
76, 78, 80, 82, 84 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9PT
OS grid reference
NT 263 724
Coordinates
55.93959, -3.18025
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

76, 78, 80, 82, and 84 South Clerk Street in Edinburgh is a four-storey building constructed in 1860. It features an ashlar exterior and follows a classic design with five windows across the front. The first-floor windows are framed with architraves and cornices. The roof is slated, and the building has a continuous design treatment with the adjacent buildings numbered 86 to 102, although the windows on this building are spaced much more widely apart. The ground floor shops have been significantly modernised.

Local climate

76, 78, 80, 82, 84 South Clerk 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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