25, 27 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 3 related planning applications.

25, 27 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
proud-banister-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
House
Address
25, 27 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AA
OS grid reference
NT 266 723
Coordinates
55.93825, -3.1755
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

25 and 27 Salisbury Road is a classical house built around 1815, featuring two storeys and five bays with a near-symmetrical design. It has a single-storey wing on the west side that is original, while a modern single-storey wing has been added to the east. The exterior is made of droved cream sandstone ashlar, with polished ashlar on the advanced central bays of the main block, rubble on the sides and rear, and brick for the modern extensions. The building includes a base course, a cill course for the first-floor windows, a cornice, and a blocking course that is raised at the center above the advanced bays. There are cast-iron window guards on the first floor featuring stylized palmettes, and projecting cills on the ground floor windows.

On the south (entrance) elevation, the four-bay block has two central bays that are advanced, with the fifth bay on the outer right recessed. The doorway is set in a round-arched panel on the penultimate left, featuring a modern two-leaf door with reinforced glass panels and a two-light fanlight above. There is a single window above the door and to the outer right, which is also recessed. The ground floor window flanking the door on the outer right is set in a round-arched panel, with single windows in the flanking bays and the fifth bay on the outer right. There is a blind, round-arched panel on the single-storey wing.

The windows are six-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with coped wallhead stacks and moulded cans.

The boundary walls consist of a low coursed and coped wall along the street with replacement railings. There are tall, octagonal gate piers at the east gate and the outer angle of the boundary wall to the west.

Local climate

25, 27 Salisbury 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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