Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital Outpatients Clinic, 10 Spring Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 1989. Former outpatient department, nursery, flats.
Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital Outpatients Clinic, 10 Spring Gardens, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- late-porch-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1989
- Type
- Former outpatient department, nursery, flats
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95502, -3.16624
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital Outpatients Clinic, located at 10 Spring Gardens in Edinburgh, was designed by H O Tarbolton in 1924 and extended in 1935. This building features a single and two-storey irregular plan with distinctive decorative curvilinear gables. It was originally the outpatients' department and is currently used as a nursery and flats as of 2007. The structure consists of two sections connected by a single-storey entrance corridor and is built of red brick in a stretcher bond pattern, with raised cills and brick detailing on the lintels. The west gable has canted sides and a central tall, round-arched window, with some round-arched openings at the ground level.
The northern elevation, facing Spring Gardens, includes two storeys and five bays, featuring a central four-panel timber entrance door with a three-light fanlight above. To the far right, there is a two-leaf timber door with an inscriptive memorial plaque above. The outer bays have symmetrical curvilinear gables.
On the eastern elevation, there is an off-centre round-arched entrance opening with a recessed four-panel timber door and a small-pane glazing pattern in the fanlight above. The building predominantly has multi-pane metal casement and hopper windows, red pantiles on the roof, and cast iron rainwater goods, which include rainwater heads dated 1935.
The interior has been comprehensively altered, but some brick fire surrounds remain, as observed in 2007.
Local climate
Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital Outpatients Clinic, 10 Spring Gardens, 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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