34 Main Street, Balerno is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 October 1994. Cottage.

34 Main Street, Balerno

WRENN ID
under-stronghold-russet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 October 1994
Type
Cottage
Address
34 Main Street, Balerno, EH14 7EH
OS grid reference
NT 163 664
Coordinates
55.88368, -3.3388
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

34 Main Street in Balerno is an earlier 19th century single-storey cottage with a rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior features large, rugged and squared sandstone, with polished ashlar raised cills.

On the east elevation, there is a centrally located door with a step and platt, flanked by windows, with the left window being larger and positioned directly under the eaves, while the lower part is boarded. There is a blocked opening for a former basement at the outer left. The cottage has symmetrically placed canted, piend-roofed dormers.

The windows are plate glass sash and case, with 12-pane sash and case windows in the dormers. The roof is covered in grey slate, has a steep pitch, and features a shouldered and coped ridge stack on the outer right.

Local climate

34 Main Street, Balerno 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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