18-20 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

18-20 High Street, Musselburgh

WRENN ID
over-attic-soot
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
Tenement
Address
18-20 High Street, Musselburgh, EH21 7AG
OS grid reference
NT 347 727
Coordinates
55.94313, -3.04652
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18-20 High Street in Musselburgh is an early 19th century, three-storey tenement with attics, featuring three windows across its front. The building has a slate roof with end stacks and is constructed from coursed rubble. The ground floor is rendered up to a band course at the window heads, with raised margins around the windows and doors, and a band course beneath the corniced eaves. On the ground floor, there is a later bipartite window to the right of the main door and a close door on the extreme left. The building includes two canted dormers, and the windows have been reglazed with double-pane sashes. At the rear, there is a central bowed stair tower projection that rises above the eaves level, topped with a semi-conical roof.

Local climate

18-20 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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