60 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. 1 related planning application.

60 Main Street, Ratho

WRENN ID
gentle-slate-gold
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Address
60 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
OS grid reference
NT 138 707
Coordinates
55.9219, -3.38025
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

58 Main Street in Ratho is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house with a symmetrical rectangular plan. It is constructed from squared Aberdeen Bond whinstone, featuring droved sandstone margins and dressings, and has a base course.

The south elevation has a central emphasis with three doors grouped at the center, connected by a stone platt. The central door is deep-set and has a letterbox fanlight, positioned higher than the flanking doors, with a roll moulding above the lintel. There is a corbelled, pedimented centerpiece at the first floor, which is recessed to accommodate a window framed by a bolection moulded architrave. A string course runs between the two corbelled sides of the centerpiece, and above the window, corbelling supports the pediment, which is outlined in sandstone and features a blind oculus at its center. The chimney stack is located at the apex, with truncated pepperpot stacks at each end.

Flanking the central bays are 12-pane sash and case windows on both the ground and first floors. The roof is red pantiled with semi-circular clay ridge tiles, and features ashlar coping on the skews along with roll-moulded skewputts. The apex stacks are square and rendered with coped tops.

Local climate

60 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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