St Helen's, 12 East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Dwelling house.
St Helen's, 12 East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- carved-balcony-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Dwelling house
- OS grid reference
- NT 131 782
- Coordinates
- 55.98954, -3.3938
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Helen's is a later 18th century, three-storey, three-bay dwelling house located at 12 East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry. The building features a band course and an eaves course, constructed from square and snecked rubble with raised margins. It has relieving arches above the ground and first floor windows.
The north elevation is symmetrical, with a central door that has a moulded architrave and a consoled cornice, topped by a fanlight consisting of four arched lights. There is a short forestair leading to the door. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern, with the second floor windows being square in proportion, and their upper lintels integrated with the eaves course.
The east elevation has an adjoining building at the ground and first floor levels, with a small window located in the right bay at the second floor. The south elevation also displays regular fenestration, featuring a central door at the ground level, another door in the right bay, and a small attic window. The west elevation is adjacent to another building.
The windows throughout the house include 12-pane sash and case windows, while the second floor windows have 6-pane sash and case designs. The roof is slate with straight stone skews, and there are rubble stacks at the gableheads. The interior was not seen in 2000.
Local climate
St Helen's, 12 East Terrace, High Street, 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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