Sedan Chair House, Tweeddale Court, 14 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Ancillary store.

Sedan Chair House, Tweeddale Court, 14 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
calm-postern-cobweb
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Ancillary store
Address
Sedan Chair House, Tweeddale Court, 14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
OS grid reference
NT 261 736
Coordinates
55.95029, -3.18459
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sedan Chair House is an 18th-century single-story ancillary store located against the wall on the west side of Tweeddale Court, High Street, Edinburgh. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble and features a moulded string course at lintel level. It has a timber three-leaf door and timber dentils at the eaves, with a roof covered in grey graded Scottish slate.

Inside, there are two notably substantial timber joists supported on stone corbels, and the timber roof beams are also supported on a run of corbels.

Local climate

Sedan Chair House, Tweeddale Court, 14 High 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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