31 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 1991. Hospital, nurses' home. 7 related planning applications.
31 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stony-sentry-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1991
- Type
- Hospital, nurses' home
- Address
- 31 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93818, -3.17641
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 Salisbury Road in Edinburgh is a monumental, symmetrical, five-storey block designed by J Douglas Miller between 1938 and 1947. The building features polished ashlar cladding on the front and side elevations, a ferro-concrete frame, and an E-plan rear with harled elevations. The southeast and southwest angles are dramatically raked.
The south entrance elevation has five bays, each containing paired single windows. The central bay is recessed and includes a ground floor canopy with a balconied eaves gallery that connects the advanced projecting bays. The entrance is located in the center at ground level, which is slightly advanced compared to the more deeply recessed upper floors. The central bay from the first floor has a slightly advanced and tapered breaking wallhead in a block-parapet.
The north elevation features strip-glazing, with vertically-glazed stair bays at the east and west arms, and horizontal glazing on the return rear elevations. The east and west elevations have pairs of single windows on all floors. The single windows include lower casements and two-pane top hoppers, with taller ground floor windows that have transoms, and strip-glazing at the rear.
Inside, the building has plain 1930s fittings, parquet flooring, and a recreation hall with a grid-glazed flat roof.
Local climate
31 Salisbury 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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