46, 48 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement.
46, 48 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-eave-woodpecker
- 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
- 46, 48 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QG
- OS grid reference
- NT 256 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94712, -3.19188
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
46 and 48 Candlemaker Row is an early 18th-century tenement that was reconstructed by Ebenezer J McRae in 1930 and restored by Simpson and Brown in 1978. This two-storey building with an attic features three bays and includes a shop on the ground floor. It is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings. The ground floor bays are divided by pilasters and have a continuous fascia and cornice above.
At No 48, there is a two-leaf timber panelled door leading to the flats on the right, while No 46 has a two-leaf timber panelled door to the shop, flanked by windows. The first floor has four windows, with a blocked former window in the centre. The three attic windows have later ashlar gablets.
The building features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, stone skews, and corniced stacks with circular cans on the ridge and a wallhead stack at the rear.
Local climate
46, 48 Candlemaker Row, 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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