Ainslie Cottage, 5 Jordan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Cottage, boundary wall. 4 related planning applications.

Ainslie Cottage, 5 Jordan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
dusted-glass-rowan
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Cottage, boundary wall
Address
Ainslie Cottage, 5 Jordan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh, EH10 4RB
OS grid reference
NT 246 711
Coordinates
55.92716, -3.20804
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ainslie Cottage is an earlier 19th century single-storey, three-bay cottage located at 5 Jordan Lane in Morningside, Edinburgh. It is constructed from cream sandstone with coursed and squared rubble, featuring droved dressings and droved ashlar quoins.

The south (front) elevation has an architraved entrance doorway at the center, which includes a panelled door and a rectangular plate glass fanlight, with single windows on either side. The north (Jordan Lane) elevation features a single window in each bay.

Both the east and west elevations are gabled and have apex stacks that have been rebuilt. The cottage has timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing and a slate roof, with droved ashlar skews.

The interior was not seen in 1992. The boundary wall consists of a tall rubble wall with flat coping that flanks the Jordan Lane elevation and surrounds a pedestrian doorway.

Local climate

Ainslie Cottage, 5 Jordan Lane, Morningside, 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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