Hall, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Church hall. 4 related planning applications.

Hall, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
stony-eave-bone
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Church hall
OS grid reference
NT 248 735
Coordinates
55.94912, -3.20493
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Cuthbert's Church Hall, designed by McArthy and Watson in 1893, is a two-storey, four-bay asymmetrical hall located on King's Stables Road in Edinburgh. To the right, there is a lower two-storey, two-bay gabled house, which has three storeys at the rear. The building features a small finialled louvred timber belfry or ventilator with an ogee roof. It is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked cream sandstone with ashlar dressings, topped by a tall piended roof. The entrance to the first-floor hall is highlighted by a projecting pedimented porch on the left, which is above an arching pend. There is a moulded string course between the ground and first floors, as well as a moulded eaves course. The building also has long and short quoins and Gibbsian surrounds around the first-floor windows.

On the southwest elevation, the ground floor is irregularly fenestrated, featuring a timber panelled door in a moulded surround located in the second bay from the right. The projecting porch leads to the first-floor hall and includes a two-leaf timber panelled door within a pedimented, channelled doorpiece, flanked by Doric pilasters. The first-floor hall has paired windows in Gibbsian surrounds with relieving arches above. The lower two-storey block to the right has tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors of its projecting gabled bay.

The northwest elevation is also irregularly fenestrated at the ground level, with a timber panelled door in a corniced surround and a relieving arch over in the second bay from the left. There are small windows, some of which are blocked, on the first floor. A Serliana with a Gibbsian surround breaks the eaves cornice, and there is a circular louvred opening in the pedimented gable above.

On the northeast (rear) elevation, there are small windows at the ground level of the main block, and paired windows in tabbed surrounds with relieving arches above the first-floor hall. A Diocletian window is located to the right, along with two carved panels that bear inscriptions and the date 1894.

The southeast elevation features small windows at the ground level and a small tripartite window under the eaves, along with a tall corniced splayed wallhead stack. The windows are fitted with small-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the stone skews are complemented by cast-iron downpipes. The gabled block to the right has tall corniced wallhead stacks.

The boundary wall includes an ashlar-coped rubble wall, cast-iron railings, corniced and panelled ashlar gatepiers, as well as decorative cast-iron gates and lamp standards.

Local climate

Hall, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, 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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