86 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Tenement.
86 High Street, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- still-stronghold-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1985
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 345 726
- Coordinates
- 55.94273, -3.04896
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
86 High Street in Musselburgh is an earlier 19th century, three-storey tenement building that features shops on the ground floor. It has four windows on both the front and rear facades. The street-facing side is constructed of ashlar stone, while the rear is made of rubble. The building has a slate roof that is piended at the Kilwinning Street end, with a wide central stack. There is a band course and a cill string course on the first floor, along with a cornice and a blocking course. Modern shop fronts extend up to and partially over the band course. At the rear, there is a flat-roofed turnpike stair tower located at the second bay from the right. The rear windows are six-pane sash, while the other windows have been reglazed with single-pane sash.
Local climate
86 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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