40 East Trinity Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 2000. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
40 East Trinity Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-pedestal-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40 East Trinity Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3DJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 766
- Coordinates
- 55.9772, -3.19989
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 East Trinity Road is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay cottage featuring Gothick details, with a single-storey wing to the right. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with some droved stone dressings on the front, while the sides and rear are made of random rubble. It has a piended roof with overhanging eaves.
The principal elevation is regularly fenestrated and includes a timber panelled door adorned with Gothick details and a fanlight above, set within a Tudor-arched opening. On the rear elevation, there is a bowed stair tower at the centre, featuring a narrow Gothic pointed timber window in a rectangular surround. Above this, a decorative cast-iron balustrade leads to a balcony accessed from French doors in a slate-hung dormer that serves the attic.
The cottage has modern windows that replicate the 12-pane lying-pane glazing pattern and is topped with graded grey slates. The stone coped stacks have circular cans. Additionally, there is a low stone coped boundary wall at the front of the property.
Local climate
40 East Trinity Road, 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 — 5 applications
- 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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