274-278 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
274-278 Canongate, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- quartered-landing-rush
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 274-278 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95058, -3.18388
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
274-278 Canongate is a five-storey tenement building in Edinburgh, designed by David Cousin and John Lessels and dated 1869. It features a crow-stepped Scots Baronial style and is situated on a prominent corner site, with altered commercial premises on the ground floor. The building is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar margins, which are raised to the stair windows. It has a moulded cornice at the ground and fourth storeys, along with some string courses.
To the far right at 2 St Mary's Street, there is a slightly advanced stair tower topped with a polygonal louvred turret. The building includes pedimented dormer heads, one of which has a datestone above on St Mary's Street. Some shops have recessed doorways.
The design features a two-bay canted corner with a corbelled crow-stepped gable and two-storey canted oriel windows on the third and fourth storeys. The first-storey windows are adorned with cornices and decorative strapwork above.
The stair tower has a roll-moulded doorway with a four-panel timber entrance door and a carved memorial plaque above. The upper storeys predominantly feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the ground floor has plate glass windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes gable and ridge stacks.
Local climate
274-278 Canongate, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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