Toolhouse, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Former toolhouse. 1 related planning application.

Toolhouse, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Former toolhouse
Address
Toolhouse, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2JY
OS grid reference
NT 249 734
Coordinates
55.94851, -3.20398
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Toolhouse at St Cuthbert's Church on King's Stables Road in Edinburgh dates back to 1838 and was restored in the 1980s. It is a two-storey, three-bay house with a piend roof, situated on a narrow, wedge-shaped site that is built into the churchyard wall. The building is constructed of coursed ashlar stone and features a cill course at the first floor and a string course beneath the eaves.

The northwest elevation has a two-leaf timber panelled door flanked by a window, with two additional windows located above. The stone at the eaves is inscribed with the date 1838. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building also has corniced, rendered stacks with circular cans.

Local climate

Toolhouse, St Cuthbert's Church, King's Stables Road, 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 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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