119-123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement block. 1 related planning application.
119-123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-roof-thistle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 119-123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AN
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94598, -3.20513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
119-123 Lothian Road and 5 Bread Street is a corner tenement block designed by William Burn between 1820 and 1825, featuring a plain classical style. The building has four storeys, with five bays facing Lothian Road and six bays on Bread Street. The exterior is made of cream sandstone ashlar, and the first floor windows have panelled aprons, with a cornice along Lothian Road. There is an eaves cornice and a blocking course at the top.
At the corner, there is a shop that was formerly a bank, which has a cream ashlar façade and granite below the window cills. The shop features a modern glazed timber door set in a consoled and corniced moulded surround. The windows are architraved and topped with decorative cartouches in the two outer bays, flanked by panelled pilasters with foliate capitals.
The first floor has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, while the upper floors predominantly feature plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The building has corniced, rendered stacks with circular cans.
Local climate
119-123 Lothian Road And 5 Bread 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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