Sylvan House, 13 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House.
Sylvan House, 13 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stony-roof-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93852, -3.19072
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sylvan House, located at 13 Sylvan Place in Edinburgh, is a house dating from the earlier to mid 18th century, with some later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a symmetrical rectangular plan. The exterior is finished in harled rubble, accented with polished ashlar dressings, including ashlar window surrounds and quoins.
On the north elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central doorpiece featuring a lugged architrave with egg and dart moulding, carved consoles, and a segmental-arched pediment. The entrance includes a panelled door and a six-pane fanlight above. There are single windows located above the door and in the remaining bays.
The west elevation has a blocked single window at the ground floor, with two single windows on the first floor and a blocked attic window. The east elevation features a single window in the gablehead. The south elevation has three single windows on both the ground and first floors, which are 12-pane sash and case windows. The roof is pitched with grey slate and includes two corniced gablehead stacks, as well as a piend-roofed dormer on the south side.
The interior was not seen in 1990. Additionally, there is a high coped rubble boundary wall along the lane.
Local climate
Sylvan House, 13 Sylvan Place, 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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