108 West Bow, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 February 1975. Tenement block.
108 West Bow, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cupola-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1975
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 108 West Bow, Edinburgh, EH1 2HH
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94812, -3.19422
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
108 West Bow in Edinburgh is a four-storey, three-bay Baronial terraced tenement block designed by Alexander W Macnaughton in 1879, featuring shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of cream ashlar, which is painted at the ground level. The ground floor has a cornice, and the bays are separated by pilasters that include strapwork detail. Channelled pilaster strips flank the bays on the first and second floors.
The first floor has stone-mullioned windows, with a tripartite window in the center and bipartite windows in the outer bays. The second floor features a central bipartite window with panelled detail below, set in an arched hood. A corbelled string course rises over carved panels between the second and third floors. The central window on the third floor has strapwork detail and a carved panel above, set within a finialled crowstepped gable, while the outer windows have finialled pedimented dormerheads.
The eaves are corbelled, and the skewputts are pedimented. The windows are fitted with plate glass in timber sash and case frames, while the shop has modern glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a corniced stack with circular cans.
Local climate
108 West Bow, 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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