25 Oswald Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
25 Oswald Crescent, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- winding-marble-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1993
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 25 Oswald Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 2HJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 712
- Coordinates
- 55.92845, -3.19327
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Oswald Crescent is a villa built in 1896 by JR & EE Pearson. This two-storey and attic, three-bay rectangular-plan villa features a service wing at the rear. It is constructed from coursed bull-faced cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The design includes a base course, a bracketed eaves cornice, architraved windows, long and short quoins, round-headed windows, and dentilled pediments on the dormers.
On the west entrance elevation, there are steps leading up to a tripartite doorpiece located in the center bay. The door has a segmental-headed and architraved opening, a panelled door, and decorative stained glass panels in the door, fanlight, and side lights. Above the door is a bracketed cornice with a balustrade. The first floor has a single window, and there is a dormer in the attic. The outer right bay features a full-height canted window with a lead canopy and a wrought-iron window guard on the dormer. The outer left bay has a full-height advanced bipartite window, also with a lead canopy and wrought-iron window guard on the dormer.
The south garden elevation has two bays, with a full-height canted window in the outer right bay and a canopy with a wrought-iron window guard on the dormer. There are single windows in the remaining bay and a bipartite dormer.
The north elevation has two bays, featuring bipartite windows on both floors in the outer left bay, with a bipartite dormer above. The remaining bay has single windows.
The east rear elevation is mostly obscured by an adjoining lower two-storey service wing and garages. It includes a three-light canted dormer and plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is a grey slate mansard with two shouldered and cornice wallhead stacks, along with two corniced wallhead stacks and moulded octagonal cans.
The gatepiers and boundary walls include pyramidal caps on the gatepiers facing South Oswald Road, with coped squared and snecked rubble sandstone walls. There is a pedestrian gateway through a slapping to South Oswald Road.
Local climate
25 Oswald Crescent, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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