St Ann's Bank House, 17 Spring Gardens, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Villa. 4 related planning applications.
St Ann's Bank House, 17 Spring Gardens, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lesser-render-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- St Ann's Bank House, 17 Spring Gardens, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, EH8 8HU
- OS grid reference
- NT 274 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95528, -3.16393
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Ann's Bank House is a villa located at 17 Spring Gardens in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. It features a symmetrical design with two storeys and an attic, comprising three bays. A later single-storey wing and a conservatory were added to the east in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with contrasting ashlar margins.
The entrance elevation faces south and is highlighted by a central doorpiece supported by Doric columns, topped with a cornice and an ornamental frieze. The entrance includes a six-panel timber door with a fanlight above. The central wallhead gable has two windows and a stack, with piended dormers on either side.
To the east, there is a timber-framed conservatory featuring a working metal window-opening mechanism. The villa predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with 6-pane casements in the attic. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and has raised skews and gable stacks.
Inside, as observed in 2007, the original room layout is mostly intact, with some simple decorative cornicing and a narrow stone spiral staircase.
The property is enclosed by a tall, coped rubble boundary wall that includes a pair of sandstone gatepiers to the south. These gatepiers have plinths, moulded capstones, and ball finials.
Local climate
St Ann's Bank House, 17 Spring Gardens, Abbeyhill, 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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