15-17 Windsor Place, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.

15-17 Windsor Place, Portobello, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-string-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
House
Address
15-17 Windsor Place, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 2AJ
OS grid reference
NT 305 737
Coordinates
55.95151, -3.11318
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

15-17 Windsor Place is an early 19th century Tudor-Gothick house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure that is now subdivided by floor. The building features finely droved ashlar with vermiculated dressings, possibly all tar covered, while the south elevation is made of rubble and the north elevation has squared render. It has a base course and strip quoins.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a deep-set flush panelled Edinburgh door at the centre, topped by a rectangular fanlight with ornamental tracery and a vermiculated doorpiece with a moulded square hoodmould. Above this, there is a blinded window with leaded lights at the first floor. Flanking the entrance are single-storey canted windows, with first-floor windows above that also have moulded square hoodmoulds. To the right, there is a later brick staircase extension with render that provides access to the first floor.

The rear elevation is not visible, but it features a T-shaped extension from the central bay. The ground floor has pointed-arch windows, and there are timber lattice windows on either side of the canted windows. The centre has ten-lying pane timber casement windows with ornamental tracery in the upper sections, some of which incorporate stained glass. The first floor has modern timber mullioned windows with pivoted upper sections. The roof is covered with purple slate and features valanced canted windows, along with rendered and coped stacks.

The boundary walls are rendered and have coping.

Local climate

15-17 Windsor Place, Portobello, 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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