1 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1987. Tenements.
1 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lesser-chamber-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1987
- Type
- Tenements
- OS grid reference
- NT 290 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94875, -3.13787
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Northfield Gardens in Edinburgh is a three-storey, seven-bay local authority tenement building constructed in 1921 by Reginald Fairlie, G Reid, and J Smith Forbes. It consists of twelve flats and is built of rubble with contrasting bull-faced window dressings, while the top floor is harled. A brick cill-band runs along the second floor. The building features shallow advanced central entrance bays, with a central timber panelled door that has a bracketed canopy above it. There is a tall arched staircase window set within a slightly recessed arch that breaks the cill-band, with red tile voussoirs at the arch's head. The outer bays have regular fenestration, and the ground floor's inner and outer bays feature bipartite windows also adorned with red tile voussoirs.
Low quadrant links connect the bays, featuring arched openings, red tile voussoirs, a string course, blocked eaves, and red pantiled skews. The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style, although they were originally designed with 12-pane glazing. The roof is broad-eaved and piended, covered in grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles. The building has tall rubble chimney stacks that include a brick band and cornice, along with a projecting shouldered chimney breast at the wallhead that breaks the eaves.
Local climate
1 Northfield Gardens, 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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