8 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
8 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- night-window-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh, EH28 8RA
- OS grid reference
- NT 139 708
- Coordinates
- 55.92261, -3.37781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Baird Road in Ratho, Edinburgh, is a pair of cottages built in the earlier 19th century. They are single storey with a rectangular plan and consist of five bays. The cottages are constructed from coursed, squared whinstone, with droved sandstone margins and quoins.
The main elevation features No 10 on the left, which is a two-bay cottage with a boarded door and a plate glass fanlight. There are mutual skew marks that indicate the division between the two cottages. No 8, on the right, is a three-bay cottage that is nearly symmetrical, with a modern door at the center, a letterbox fanlight, and flanking windows.
No 10 has a 12-pane sash and case window, while No 8 has 8-pane sash and case windows. Both cottages have skylights in their roofs. They are topped with grey slate roofs, have ashlar skews, and feature rendered and coped apex stacks.
The boundary wall is made of stugged, coursed sandstone with ashlar coping. It includes slender square piers that have chamfered arrises and conical heads.
Local climate
8 Baird Road, Ratho, Edinburgh 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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