Chisholm House, 1 High School Yards, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
Chisholm House, 1 High School Yards, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- burning-plaster-gorse
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- Chisholm House, 1 High School Yards, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94885, -3.18308
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Chisholm House, located at 1 High School Yards in Edinburgh, is a former town house built in 1764. It is a three-storey building with an attic and basement, currently used as offices since 2007. The exterior features painted harl with ashlar margins and raised long and short quoins, while the rear is constructed of rubble. There is a band course above the basement, raised cills, and a cornice. The building has a later addition of a pair of bipartite dormers. The entrance door, located on the far left, is a four-pane timber door with a three-light fanlight above.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring coped gable stacks and raised skews.
Inside, as observed in 2007, the building has been converted into offices. It includes a D-plan open-well staircase with cast iron balusters and a timber handrail, while wooden balusters are present in the attic.
Additionally, there are spear-headed metal railings with an integral gate to the west of the property.
Local climate
Chisholm House, 1 High School Yards, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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