74-78 Grassmarket, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Tenement, public house. 13 related planning applications.
74-78 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-jade-equinox
- 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, public house
- Address
- 74-78 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JR
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94789, -3.19539
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
74-78 Grassmarket is a 17th-century tenement building, dated 1634, which was rebuilt between 1929 and 1930 by Ebebezer J MacRae. It has four storeys and an attic, featuring a five-bay façade with a public house on the ground floor and a lower advanced stair tower at the center. The building is constructed of random rubble and has relieving arches above the first and second floor windows.
To the left, there is a taller two-bay block with a steep roof that includes a piend-roofed dormer and a crowstepped gable on the right. The lower two-bay block on the right has a catslide roof and a crowstepped dormer head on the third floor that breaks the eaves, along with a small window in the gable. The projecting stair tower features a roll-moulded doorway and an original lintel stone, along with a moulded string course on the first and second floors. The public house has a modern front.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The building has corniced ashlar end stacks with circular cans and is topped with graded grey slates.
Local climate
74-78 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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