3 Ramsay Lane, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 2001. Former school. 2 related planning applications.
3 Ramsay Lane, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- silent-eave-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 October 2001
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- 3 Ramsay Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 2NQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94924, -3.1958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Ramsay Lane in Edinburgh is a former school building designed by Patrick Wilson in 1837. It is a three-storey, two-bay structure featuring Jacobean detailing, with a single-storey extension at the rear. The main building is constructed of coursed ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of coursed rubble. There is a string course that runs between the ground and first floors, and the windows have chamfered surrounds.
The west elevation facing Ramsay Lane has a shaped gable topped with an apex chimney and an oculus. The corners of the building feature corniced chimney stalks. In the center, there is a slightly advanced three-storey bay with a five-light window on both the ground and first floors, which has modern glazing. Above this window, there is a raised panel with the inscription "TOLBOOTH PARISH SCHOOLS MDCCCXXXVII."
The east elevation at the rear shows a two-bay gabled section of the main block, along with a pitch-roofed single-storey extension that has a finialled ogee-roofed ventilator set on a base with a diaper pattern.
Local climate
3 Ramsay Lane, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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