21, 23, 25 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. 5 related planning applications.

21, 23, 25 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
inner-basalt-mint
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Address
21, 23, 25 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2HS
OS grid reference
NT 253 732
Coordinates
55.94684, -3.19728
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

27-29 Grassmarket in Edinburgh is a four-storey, seven-bay tenement building constructed between 1859 and 1863 by George Fox. The ground floor features shops and a flat-arched pend in the center known as Porteous Pend. The building is made of droved ashlar with polished dressings, although the ground floor is painted. Architectural details include a base course, a continuous fascia and cornice at the ground floor, a cill band at the first floor, and a dividing band between the second and third floors, topped with an eaves cornice. The ground floor has stop-chamfered openings, while the upper floors feature raised architraves on the windows, bracketed cills on the second floor, and gabletted dormerheads with rectangular carved panels on the third floor windows. The original shop fronts include two-leaf timber panelled storm doors and recessed glazed inner doors. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring brick stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

21, 23, 25 Grassmarket, 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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