4 Belford Mews is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2009. 5 related planning applications.
4 Belford Mews
- WRENN ID
- little-mantel-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 2009
- Address
- 4 Belford Mews, EH4 3BT
- OS grid reference
- NT 238 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95188, -3.22024
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Belford Mews is a row of single-storey and attic mews houses built around 1865. The buildings feature prominent ashlar pedimented dormers with alternating semi-circular and shaped profiles, all topped with acroteria. There have been some later alterations, including flat lintels and steel doors added to some former openings. The construction consists of coursed squared and snecked red sandstone rubble, with some red sandstone ashlar surrounds and a banded eaves course. The openings are roll moulded, with ashlar cills that have inscribed scrolls. The cart shed doors are segmental headed, predominantly featuring two-leaf arched timber doors with four-light glazing in the upper sections. The entrance doorways are recessed, and there are some bipartite dormers.
On the east (rear) elevation, the ground floor has irregular fenestration with some doorways and later metal garage doors. The attic windows break the wallhead, featuring plain gablets and ashlar skews, along with some rectangular dormers and later rooflights.
The windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof is mansard, adorned with decorative clay ridge tiles and grey slates. The north gable end has moulded and bracketed ashlar skews, while the ridge and gable end stacks are corniced ashlar, with some wallhead stacks at the rear and a few modern flues. The rainwater goods are cast iron.
Local climate
4 Belford Mews 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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