30, 32 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 2000. House.
30, 32 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ancient-quartz-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- 30, 32 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3JF
- OS grid reference
- NT 246 769
- Coordinates
- 55.97932, -3.20941
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30 and 32 Primrose Bank Road is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1898 by W N Thomson. It has a piend roof and features distinctive classical details. The exterior is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar, with a dentilled eaves cornice and prominent long and short quoins. The windows are architraved.
On the principal elevation, there is a balustraded balcony at the first floor, supported by two Doric columns on pedestals in the center bay. This balcony connects the canted outer ground floor bays, which have three-light windows. The cill course of the canted bays continues as a balustraded handrail at the base of the columns. The cornice of the canted bays acts as a Doric entablature supporting the balcony above. There is a timber panelled door with a geometrically ornamented fanlight and side lights in an arched opening. The first floor has three windows with lugged surrounds, with the window above the door being narrow and featuring prominent voussoirs. The outer windows have dentilled open pediments that break the eaves above.
The side elevations, facing east and west, are made of squared and snecked sandstone and have irregular fenestration. There are additional stairs and entrances to accommodate the flats.
The rear elevation has a two-bay advanced section to the left with lean-to extensions at the ground floor. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there is a slate-hung dormer in the attic. A semi-domed bow window is located to the right at ground level, while a two-light window with a stone mullion is found at the first floor, along with a slate-hung canted dormer in the attic.
The original ornamental glazing pattern in the timber sash and case windows remains in the right and central bays of the south elevation. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are ashlar wallhead stacks with dentilled cornices and circular cans.
The property also features low coursed sandstone boundary walls with arched ashlar coping and decorative wrought-iron railings.
Local climate
30, 32 Primrose Bank 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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