Lodge at Castlebrae Business Centre, 40 Peffer Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 2003. 3 related planning applications.
Lodge at Castlebrae Business Centre, 40 Peffer Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solemn-paling-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 2003
- OS grid reference
- NT 289 719
- Coordinates
- 55.93505, -3.13875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlebrae Business Centre, formerly known as Niddrie Marischal School, is a large, International Modern style building designed by Reid and Forbes in 1935. The structure features two-storey, flat-roofed classroom blocks arranged in a quadrangular plan, with a single-storey gymnasium located at the center. Above the main entrance on the north side, there is a tower adorned with Art Deco detailing, which still houses the original school bell. The building includes a stair tower and a three-storey section with vertical slit windows. Notable architectural elements include corniced canopies above the doors, as well as base and cill courses. The exterior is finished with harled reinforced concrete.
Additionally, there is a former dining hall, which serves as a lodge, featuring two storeys and a circular tower at the northwest corner.
Local climate
Lodge at Castlebrae Business Centre, 40 Peffer Place, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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