55-57 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

55-57 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
salt-gable-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Commercial building
Address
55-57 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB
OS grid reference
NT 260 730
Coordinates
55.94449, -3.18584
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

55-57 West Nicolson Street is a corner block building dating from around 1815. It is a four-storey structure made of ashlar stone. The building features four windows on each front, with a one-window curved corner. The ground floor has arched openings that serve as shop entrances.

Local climate

55-57 West 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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