Post Office, 41-45 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Post office. 1 related planning application.
Post Office, 41-45 High Street, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- bitter-balcony-marsh
- 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
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 41-45 High Street, Musselburgh, EH21 7AD
- OS grid reference
- NT 346 727
- Coordinates
- 55.9437, -3.04792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office located at 41-45 High Street in Musselburgh was built in 1903 by W T Oldrieve and showcases Edwardian Baroque architecture. This two-storey building features a wide frontage with four windows. The entrance bay is positioned to the right and includes an architraved doorpiece with a consoled dummy balcony above.
On the first floor, the window is recessed and framed by Doric columns, with a semi-circular open pediment that rises into a raised parapet adorned with a cartouche of the Royal Arms. The left-hand windows are closely spaced, and the ground floor windows are architraved and banded together in a Gibbsian style. The first-floor windows are recessed over a cill cornice, with panelled pilasters that display swags hung from lions' heads between them. A main cornice and a balustraded parapet conceal the slated roof. The upper sashes consist of six panes, while the lower sashes on the first floor are double-pane, and the ground floor windows are also recessed.
Local climate
Post Office, 41-45 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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