Community Centre, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 2003. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Community Centre, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
western-hammer-dew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 2003
Type
Church
Address
Community Centre, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER
OS grid reference
NT 261 729
Coordinates
55.94429, -3.18415
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Community Centre at 117 Nicolson Street in Edinburgh was originally designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1820 and features a Perpendicular Gothic style. The building was formerly the Nicolson Street Church, with later rebuilding carried out by JR MacKay in 1932 after a fire.

The elevation facing Nicolson Street has a Tudor Gothic design with five bays, highlighted by pinnacled buttresses and a crenellated parapet. There is a low wall made of ashlar coping along the street, which is complemented by later metal railings. Stone steps lead up to a two-leaf timber-panelled door, which is set within a hoodmoulded Tudor-arched surround that features mask label stops. The building also includes lancet windows adorned with Perpendicular tracery, and the exterior is constructed from coursed ashlar.

Local climate

Community Centre, 117 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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