70 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Shop.

70 High Street, Musselburgh

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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
Shop
OS grid reference
NT 346 726
Coordinates
55.94286, -3.04844
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

70 High Street in Musselburgh is an early 19th century building that stands two storeys tall with a shop on the ground floor. The facade features three windows that are rendered with raised margins. There are attractive Victorian shop fascias both above and below a cornice that runs the full width of the building. The ground floor includes three glazed shop windows with aprons extending down to the plinth, as well as doors for the shop and a passage. The roof has been replaced with concrete tiles, and there is a crowstepped gable at the east end.

Local climate

70 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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