Fire Station, 79 Angle Park Terrace, 78, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 2001. Fire station.
Fire Station, 79 Angle Park Terrace, 78, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- distant-remnant-foxglove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 November 2001
- Type
- Fire station
- OS grid reference
- NT 235 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93769, -3.22529
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former fire station at 79 Angle Park Terrace in Edinburgh was designed by Robert Morham and built between 1894 and 1900. This asymmetrical single-storey and attic building features seven bays, a swept roof, barge-boarded eaves, and three gables with finials facing the street. To the outer right, there is a single-bay gabled structure. The building is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone with polished dressings, and includes a base course and a bracketed eaves cornice. Notable architectural details include long and short quoins and timbered panels in the gables.
On the northwest elevation facing Angle Park Terrace, the gabled structure on the outer right has a two-leaf door. There are full-height glazed timber doors in two bays to the outer right, and two slightly projecting gabled bays in the center. The left gable features a date stone from 1895, while the right has a segmental-arched tripartite window and a door to the left. A canted window with a chamfered surround is located in the left gabled bay, and there is a tripartite opening in the wall to the outer left. The windows are fitted with small-pane glazing, and the building has cast-iron downpipes with decorative hoppers. The roof is covered with greenish slates, with tiles on the rear, and features terracotta ridge tiles. A corniced ashlar chimney stalk with a circular can is present on the rear gable.
Local climate
Fire Station, 79 Angle Park Terrace, 78, 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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