22 Manor Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.
22 Manor Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sunken-step-coral
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 22 Manor Place, Edinburgh, EH3 7DS
- OS grid reference
- NT 242 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94829, -3.21515
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Manor Place in Edinburgh is an extensive classical terrace designed by Robert Brown around 1813 to 1822 and executed by John Lessels between 1866 and 1873. The building features a unified façade of two-storey attic and basement townhouses, with main-door and common stair flats located behind. It includes segmental arched dormers and a basement area that has some vaulted cellars and retaining walls.
The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with droved ashlar used for the basement and channelled ashlar at the ground floor. The entrance platts oversail the basement, and there are banded base and cill courses, as well as a string course at the first floor and a corniced eaves course. The terminal houses have a balustraded parapet. The round-arched door surrounds feature plain fanlights, while the first-floor windows have moulded architraves. The attic has lead-roofed segmental arched dormers, with later slate-hung box dormers added to Nos. 14 and 20. Additionally, there are cast-iron balconies on scrolled brackets at the first-floor windows.
The north elevation is rendered with sandstone ashlar dressings, including ashlar quoins on the left. It features a banded cill course at the first floor and a corniced eaves course, with a two-storey corniced canted bay to the left. The centre bay is slightly recessed, with a bipartite ground floor window, a corniced window at the first floor, and a small attic window above.
The rear elevation is made of coursed squared rubble, with ashlar cills, lintels, and rybats, along with some ashlar quoins. The fenestration is roughly regular.
The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof has a double pitch M-section design with sandstone skews and grey slates. There are corniced ashlar wall-head and ridge stacks with modern clay cans. Cast-iron railings edge the basement recess to the street, and there are cast iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the interiors are characterized by plain classical detailing, with some cornicing featuring mainly floreate designs. There are fire surrounds with broken pediments, and some oval internal rooms have detailed plasterwork door surrounds and cornicing.
Local climate
22 Manor Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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