20 Broughton Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1966. 1 related planning application.
20 Broughton Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- woven-sandstone-jackdaw
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1966
- Address
- 20 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RX
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 746
- Coordinates
- 55.95891, -3.18862
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
22 Broughton Place is an impressive terrace of houses built in 1809, featuring two storeys with a basement and attic, and comprising 15 symmetrical bays. The exterior is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a rusticated finish at the ground level and a rock-faced basement. It includes a base course, a band course between the floors, and a corniced cill band at the first floor. The first-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices, while the eaves are finished with a cornice and a blocking course. The entrance features ashlar steps and platts that extend over the basement.
On the principal elevation, there are timber panelled doors with fanlights located in bays 3, 4, 7, 12, and 13, with windows in the remaining bays, creating a regular pattern above. The roof features piended and canted tripartite dormers for Nos 20, 24, and 26, a piended dormer for No 28, and rooflights. The windows are timber sash and case, primarily with 12-pane glazing, while No 28 has plate glass. The building is topped with ashlar ridge stacks that have terracotta cans, and decorative cast-iron railings enhance the overall appearance.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
20 Broughton 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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