Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.
Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- white-ember-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh, EH15 2BD
- OS grid reference
- NT 307 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95355, -3.10989
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Raefield, located at 43 Marlborough Street in Edinburgh, is an early 19th century pair of houses with later additions and alterations. The building is single storey and consists of five bays. The front is finished in channelled polished ashlar, while the side elevation of No 43 is made of rubble, and No 45 has a harled and blank side elevation. It features a base course, cornice, and blocking course.
On the southeast (principal) elevation, there are panelled doors in the 2nd and 4th bays, each topped with a plate glass rectangular fanlight. The remaining bays contain windows.
The southwest (side) elevation has a window on the outer left, with additional windows at the ground and first floor of an extension.
The northwest (rear) elevation includes a two-storey extension with a squared render gable end, which is lit on the right at the first floor. There is also a later single storey harled projection. Additionally, there is a two-storey extension at the rear of No 45, featuring a wooden painted canted window with stop-chamfered arrises.
The windows throughout are 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is grey slate, with a flat roof on the single storey addition and a slate mansard roof on the extension at the rear of No 45. The gable head is finished in droved ashlar with coped detailing and mutual stacks.
The interior was not seen in 1994. The boundary walls consist of lined render for No 43 and harled and coped for No 45.
Local climate
Moss Cottage, 45 Marlborough 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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