1-2 Bell Stane, South Queensferry is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Corner building. 1 related planning application.
1-2 Bell Stane, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- seventh-nave-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Corner building
- Address
- 1-2 Bell Stane, South Queensferry, EH30 9PU
- OS grid reference
- NT 129 784
- Coordinates
- 55.99087, -3.39746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-2 Bell Stane in South Queensferry is a two-storey corner building dated 1879. It features a two-bay projecting eastern section and a single bay western section. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with a painted eastern wing and ashlar dressings. It has a base course and a fascia at the first floor.
On the south (principal) elevation, the entrance door is located in the left bay of the eastern wing, accompanied by a four-pane fanlight. There is a now-unused flanking door and a single window in the right bay, with a bipartite window above. To the left, there is a carved datestone featuring an owl. The western section has bipartite windows at both the ground and first floors.
The western elevation includes a single window at both the ground and first floors in the left bay, along with a garage extension at the rear. The northern elevation is adjacent to another building. The eastern elevation has a single window at both the ground and first floors in the right bay.
The building has modern glazing and a grey slate roof, with a red slate diamond in the center of the eastern section roof. It features straight skews, a coped stack at the eastern gablehead, and a short stack at the east.
Local climate
1-2 Bell Stane, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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