7 Canon Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.

7 Canon Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dusted-copper-yew
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
House
Address
7 Canon Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5HE
OS grid reference
NT 252 749
Coordinates
55.96187, -3.1985
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 Canon Street in Edinburgh is a three-storey building with a basement, constructed by Robert Brown between 1822 and 1835. It features a seven-window facade, with dummies at the second and sixth positions. The facade remains unpainted and in its original condition, aside from the replacement of the sashes and the addition of plain modern railings.

Local climate

7 Canon 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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