10-12 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. Tenement. 6 related planning applications.

10-12 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
wild-timber-stoat
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
Tenement
Address
10-12 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TB
OS grid reference
NT 261 736
Coordinates
55.95038, -3.1845
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

10-12 High Street in Edinburgh is a traditional tenement building dating from around 1800. It stands five stories tall and features four bays, with shops located on the ground floor. The exterior is made of pale ashlar stone and has raised cills. On the left side, there is a pedestrian pend that leads to Worlds End Close.

The building is adorned with 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is topped with Scottish slate. It has broad harled stacks with clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

10-12 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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