4 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

4 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dreaming-gutter-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1992
Type
Tenement
Address
4 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh, EH9 1JY
OS grid reference
NT 256 724
Coordinates
55.9395, -3.19211
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Argyle Park Terrace in Edinburgh is a pair of four-storey tenements with an attic, built around 1876 by W Hamilton Beattie. These symmetrical buildings are designed in a Baronial style and feature five bays that mirror each other around the center. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a dividing band course between the ground and first floors, a corbel table above the second floor with segmental arches over the windows, crowstepped gables, and raised window surrounds.

On the north elevation, each tenement block has a central doorway with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. The central gable is adorned with two round-arched gablehead windows, while single windows are located in the bays on either side of the center. The outer bays feature three-storey canted windows, topped with cornices and cast-iron brattishing that create a mock balcony for the third-floor bipartite windows. Gabled timber dormers, which have finials at No 5, include bracketed bargeboards and round-arched bipartite windows.

The buildings predominantly have four-pane plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes corniced gableheads, shared stacks, moulded cans, and moulded eaves guttering, with some original rainwater goods still in place.

The interiors were not seen in 1990, and there is a low saddleback wall along the street.

Local climate

4 Argyle Park Terrace, 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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