1, 2 St Fishmarket Square, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.

1, 2 St Fishmarket Square, Newhaven, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
proud-chancel-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 255 770
Coordinates
55.98043, -3.19513
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 2 St Fishmarket Square is a mid to later 18th century tenement that has been recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. This three-storey, three-bay building is part of a terrace and features harled and limewashed walls, with painted concrete surrounds and ingoes, and slightly projecting cills. At the rear, there is a harled turnpike stair.

On the east elevation facing Fishmarket Square, there is a boarded timber door providing ground floor entry in the outer right bay, with single windows in the central bay and the outer left bay. The first and second floors have regular fenestration.

The west elevation, facing Wester Close, features a full-height, two-bay turnpike stair in the outer right bay, which has been converted to provide access to No 1. There is a single doorway facing west in the left bay of the stair, with regular fenestration on the first and second floors.

Both elevations have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is machine-made with red pantiles and a grey slate easing course, and there are precast concrete skews following standard detail. The building has coped apex stacks to the north and south, each with circular cans.

Local climate

1, 2 St Fishmarket Square, Newhaven, 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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