7 Old Fishmarket Close, 190 High Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. House. 7 related planning applications.
7 Old Fishmarket Close, 190 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- cold-thatch-storm
- 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
- House
- Address
- 7 Old Fishmarket Close, 190 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1RW
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94921, -3.18935
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Old Fishmarket Close is an early 19th-century traditional residential tenement located at 190 High Street, Edinburgh. This building has a shallow plan and consists of four storeys plus a basement, featuring a seven-bay façade. It is situated on sloping ground and has a raised horizontal platform at the ground floor, enclosed by iron railings. The exterior is made of coursed, squared rubble with ashlar dressings and raised cills.
The principal (west) elevation displays a regular arrangement of windows, with a band course at the third floor that serves as window lintels, and a blocking course above. The centre of the elevation features a shallow nepus gable, which likely originally housed a wallhead stack. At the ground floor, there are two later glazed doors leading to commercial premises, while the third bay above is blind on the upper floors. The rear (east) elevation has irregular fenestration and includes a central bow.
The building is fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a Scottish slate roof, squat coped end stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
7 Old Fishmarket Close, 190 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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