39 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Villa.
39 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- shifting-tower-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NT 205 690
- Coordinates
- 55.90778, -3.27236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 Gillespie Road is a 2-storey villa built in 1905, likely by the architects Barbour, James and Bowie from Dumfries. The exterior is harled, featuring stone sills and a door architrave. The south elevation includes two single-storey rectangular bays connected by a continuous roof, with a central recessed area. Above these bays, there are two first-floor bipartite windows; the left one has a dormer head, while the right is set in a barge-boarded gable with a scalloped-tile tympanum. The east side has an asymmetrical jerkin head gable, and there is a curved porch in the re-entrant angle topped with a tall candle-snuffer roof that sweeps back into the main roof. A single-storey piended outshot projects from the northeast corner. The windows are small-paned, with the upper parts only at the bays. The roof is made of Cotswold stone and features bracketed eaves, along with harled chimney stacks.
Local climate
39 Gillespie Road, 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 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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