Newcraighall Primary School, 67 Whitehill Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 October 2003. School. 4 related planning applications.

Newcraighall Primary School, 67 Whitehill Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
silver-hall-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 October 2003
Type
School
Address
Newcraighall Primary School, 67 Whitehill Street, Edinburgh, EH21 8QZ
OS grid reference
NT 321 718
Coordinates
55.93512, -3.08818
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Newcraighall Primary School, built in 1905 by A Murray Hardy and extended in 1934, is a single-storey primary school featuring two gabled blocks connected by a parapet. The school has a gabled roof over the central hall, which includes a Diocletian window. The larger windows are designed with mullions and transoms, and there are ventilators on the roof. The side elevations have taller piend-roofed windows. The building is constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone, with red sandstone ashlar dressings. At the rear, there is a later two-storey pebble-dashed extension and a single-storey piend-roofed nursery classroom.

Inside, the central hall has a gabled, metal-trussed roof with roof lights. Classrooms open off the hall, featuring glazed doors and fanlights.

The boundary wall includes plain cast iron railings atop a coped rubble wall, with shallow pyramidal caps on the red sandstone gatepiers. The school has modern replacement glazing, graded grey slates, and terracotta ridge tiles, along with cast iron downpipes that have polygonal hoppers and stone skews.

Local climate

Newcraighall Primary School, 67 Whitehill Street, 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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