68, 70, 72, 74 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. 9 related planning applications.

68, 70, 72, 74 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
graven-banister-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Address
68, 70, 72, 74 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9PT
OS grid reference
NT 263 724
Coordinates
55.93977, -3.18037
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

56 South Clerk Street is a four-storey tenement block built around 1869, constructed from ashlar stone and designed without any decorative style. The ground floor features continuous shops that align with the upper floors, which have five canted bays arranged in two and three-window intervals. These bays sit on a continuous podium of advanced ground floor shops that include dentilled cornices. The southern section of the facade is canted out to create a unified shop frontage with the earlier tenements next door. The first floor has architraved windows topped with cornices.

Local climate

68, 70, 72, 74 South Clerk 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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