26 St John's Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1997. House. 1 related planning application.

26 St John's Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
buried-cobalt-ochre
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 November 1997
Type
House
Address
26 St John's Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, EH12 6NZ
OS grid reference
NT 202 729
Coordinates
55.94272, -3.27799
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

26 St John's Road is a baronial house built in 1896, featuring two storeys and an irregular three-bay plan. The exterior is made of coursed, squared, and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a stepped dividing band course, and stugged quoins, along with crowstepped gables and thistle and ball finials.

On the south entrance elevation, there is a roll-moulded near-central doorway, a stained glass window to the right, and a carved decorative tablet above that is dated 1896. The first floor has two single windows. To the left, there is a conical-roofed stair tower with a stained glass window and single windows above and below. An advanced bay to the outer left features a three-light canted bay window at both the ground and first floors, along with a single window at the gable. Similarly, the right side has a three-light canted bay window at the ground and first floors in an advanced bay, a single window set in the gablehead, and a conical-roofed bartizan to the outer right with a single window. There are modern brick extensions to the outer left, outer right, and rear, as well as a conservatory to the outer left.

The house predominantly has four-pane timber sash and case windows, along with Velux rooflights and stained glass. The roof is covered with grey slate and features crowstepped skews, moulded skewputts, and corniced ridge and wallhead stacks with circular cans.

The boundary walls consist of a low, coped squared, snecked, and stugged sandstone wall, topped with pyramidal caps on square-plan gatepiers.

Local climate

26 St John's Road, Corstorphine, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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