13 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

13 High Street, Musselburgh

WRENN ID
fallow-keystone-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 May 1985
Type
House
Address
13 High Street, Musselburgh, EH21 7AD
OS grid reference
NT 347 727
Coordinates
55.94365, -3.04647
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building at 13 High Street, Musselburgh, dates from around 1790 and features two high storeys with a symmetrical three-window facade. It has a ridge slate roof with end stacks and is constructed from coursed rubble. The front is adorned with angle Doric pilasters that extend to the first-floor cill band course, with quoins above. The ground floor showcases pilastered and corniced windows and doorpiece, with the pilasters of the doorpiece finely rusticated. The entrance includes a door flanked by narrow sidelights and a fine original fanlight. The first-floor windows have raised margins, and there is an eaves course below a thin cornice that is decorated with heavy mutules. The gable elevation features a small attic window above the roof of No 9. The windows have been reglazed with single pane sashes.

Local climate

13 High Street, Musselburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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