31 Bellfield Street, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
31 Bellfield Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- low-hammer-rush
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 31 Bellfield Street, Edinburgh, EH15 2BR
- OS grid reference
- NT 309 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95234, -3.10755
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 Bellfield Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located at the end of a terrace. It has a rectangular plan with an extension at the rear. The building features finely droved ashlar stonework, while the blank side elevation is harled. It includes a base course, a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, and a blocking course.
The northwest (principal) elevation has a regular arrangement of bays, with windows on each floor in the central and left bays. To the right, there is a stylised fielded panel door set in a semicircular recess, featuring fluted ingoes and a broad semicircular radial fanlight that spans the door and flanking pilasters, which are also recessed. Above the door, there is a window at the first floor.
The southeast (rear) elevation includes a projection that predates 1856 at the right bay.
The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof with a platform at the apex, which is lit by a cupola. The roof features coped skews and apex stacks.
Inside, the property boasts exceptionally high-quality decorative plasterwork throughout, including gothic fan-vaulting in the entrance hall, bosses and ribs in the cupola, cornices, roses, and overdoors in the principal rooms. The drawing room features a white marble chimneypiece with carved floral details and incised anthemions, along with original grate fittings. The dining room has a black marble chimneypiece.
The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar with coping.
Local climate
31 Bellfield Street, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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