125 Moira Terrace, Portobello Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1995. House. 1 related planning application.

125 Moira Terrace, Portobello Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1995
Type
House
Address
125 Moira Terrace, Portobello Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6UB
OS grid reference
NT 295 743
Coordinates
55.95736, -3.12971
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

125 Moira Terrace is a mid to later 19th century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan gabled house, featuring a single-storey addition to the west. The building is constructed from stugged squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings and has a base course.

On the south elevation, there is a deep-set panelled door located in the recessed centre bay, which is topped by a three-pane rectangular fanlight. This door is framed by a pilastered and corniced doorpiece. Above the first-floor window, there is a cast-iron window guard that sits above a cornice, with the window breaking the eaves beneath a coped gable. The gable features a rectangular plaque, skewputts, and a thistle sandstone finial. The outer bays of the crowstepped gable are slightly advanced and contain windows on each floor, each with a rectangular plaque in the gablehead and a sandstone ball finial. The window in the centre of the single-storey addition is set back to the left.

The east elevation has two bays, with a window in each floor of the left bay. The first-floor window breaks the eaves and has a coped gable, skewputts, and a sandstone finial. A modern glazed door is located at ground level in the right bay, which may have been a former window opening, with a window above that also breaks the eaves.

The north elevation is not visible as of 1995. The building has u-PVC windows, which were originally timber sash and case, and features a slate roof.

Local climate

125 Moira Terrace, Portobello Road, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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