128-130 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. 4 related planning applications.
128-130 High Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grey-stronghold-autumn
- 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
- Address
- 128-130 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QS
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94982, -3.18841
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
136-140 High Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey, eight-bay residential and commercial tenement built in 1825, incorporating earlier materials due to a fire in 1824. The building features an ashlar facade, with a later ground floor made of squared and snecked rubble. It has raised cills and two wide segmental-arch openings on the ground floor to the left. In the center, there is a narrow round-arched pend leading to Stevenlaw's Close, along with a large plate glass window and doorway on the far right. The building is topped with a pair of bi-partite dormers at both the far left and right.
Most of the windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with Scottish slate. The building has particularly broad brick and harled stacks with clay cans, and it features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
128-130 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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