Pentland Cottage, 21 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Cottage.

Pentland Cottage, 21 Gillespie Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
narrow-spire-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 208 689
Coordinates
55.90706, -3.26831
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Pentland Cottage, located at 21 Gillespie Road in Edinburgh, was designed by Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer in 1895 and reflects an English traditional style influenced by Voysey. The north front features an asymmetrical two-storey design with twin gables that have ashlar apices, linked by a rainwater head. The entrance includes a doorpiece with an enriched architrave and a projected asymmetrical gable feature on the east side. The south front consists of a single-storey and attic structure with a loggia at the center, flanked by asymmetrical half-hipped gables. The eastern section of the building is a later addition with a piended roof.

Local climate

Pentland Cottage, 21 Gillespie 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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