189-191 Canongate, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

189-191 Canongate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
gaunt-loggia-barley
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
Type
Tenement
Address
189-191 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8BN
OS grid reference
NT 263 737
Coordinates
55.95128, -3.18105
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

189-191 Canongate in Edinburgh is a 17th-century building that was predominantly rebuilt in 1957 by Robert Hurd. This four-storey, three-bay tenement features a large shouldered wallhead chimney at the center, with paired windows on either side at the first, second, and third floors. The ground floor includes a shop with a central door flanked by fixed-pane display windows. The exterior is made of squared and snecked rubble with red stucco render, and it has raised cills. A metal plaque is located at the center of the first floor, set within a square chamfered ashlar recess. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a roof covered with red pantiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

189-191 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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