Manse, 19 Abercorn Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2002. Manse.

Manse, 19 Abercorn Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
haunted-keep-cream
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 2002
Type
Manse
OS grid reference
NT 282 738
Coordinates
55.9526, -3.15129
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a manse located at 19 Abercorn Road in Edinburgh, designed by Arthur George Sydney Mitchell in 1894. It is a two-storey, two-bay structure with an asymmetrical design, rendered exterior, and decorative applied timbering on the gables. The roofs are swept and feature timber barge boarding.

On the northeast elevation, there is a penticed-roof canted window on the left at ground level, with a tripartite window above it. The right bay has bipartite windows. The northwest elevation displays asymmetrical fenestration, with an advanced gable-ended section in the center bay. A catslide roof extends to the northeast, forming a porch supported by a single timber post, leading to a timber panelled door accessed through the original decorative timber gate.

The southwest elevation features an advanced gable on the left with a four-light canted window on the first floor, while the rest of the fenestration is irregular. There is a bracketed timber balcony on the right side. The windows predominantly have four-pane upper sashes and two-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered with grey-green slates and red terracotta ridge tiles, and there are tall rendered corniced stacks with tall circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 2002. The property is enclosed by a boundary wall made of ashlar-coped rubble, which steps down the hill to the northwest and northeast, topped with plain cast-iron railings on the northwest side only.

Local climate

Manse, 19 Abercorn 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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