2-8 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. Tenement. 12 related planning applications.

2-8 High Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dark-cornice-plum
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
2-8 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TB
OS grid reference
NT 261 736
Coordinates
55.9505, -3.18436
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2-8 High Street in Edinburgh is a five-storey tenement building dating from around 1800, located on a corner site with a return to St Mary's Street. The principal (north) elevation features sandstone ashlar and a dentiled eaves course. The second, third, and fourth floors have bracketed raised cills. The ground floor includes painted, round-arched openings for a public house, which are corbelled out at the curving northeast corner. The east elevation is constructed of squared and snecked rubble.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with a 15-pane pattern at the fifth bay. It is topped with a Scottish slate roof, broad harled stacks with clay cans, and features cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

2-8 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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