The Two Bridges Hotel, 2-3 Newhalls Road (Edinburgh Road), South Queensferry is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
The Two Bridges Hotel, 2-3 Newhalls Road (Edinburgh Road), South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- steep-bronze-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Two Bridges Hotel, 2-3 Newhalls Road (Edinburgh Road), South Queensferry, EH30 9TA
- OS grid reference
- NT 135 782
- Coordinates
- 55.98973, -3.38756
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Two Bridges Hotel, located at 2-3 Newhalls Road (Edinburgh Road) in South Queensferry, is an earlier 19th-century building that has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features droved ashlar stonework with smooth ashlar dressings. The original structure is a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa, with 2-storey wings added to the east and west. It has a base course, a first-floor band course, a moulded eaves cornice, and raised cills. A modern conservatory has been added to the west.
On the northern principal elevation, the central section has a symmetrical 3-bay facade, featuring a central arched doorpiece with pilasters and a delicate umbrella fanlight, along with regular window arrangements. The west wing includes a 2-storey, 3-light canted bay topped with a pediment. The east wing has a 3-light canted bay at the ground floor and a single window with a dormer head above.
The east elevation has an M-shaped gable, with a single-storey extension on the left and a single window in the right bay at the first floor. The south elevation displays irregular window arrangements. The west elevation features a 2-storey advanced bay and a single-storey conservatory added to the lower bay.
The hotel has a variety of glazing patterns in its timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with straight skews, and low ashlar stacks at the gable heads.
Local climate
The Two Bridges Hotel, 2-3 Newhalls Road (Edinburgh Road), South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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