Smithy, 79 Howden Hall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 October 2007. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Smithy, 79 Howden Hall Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
night-buttress-evening
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 October 2007
Type
Cottage
Address
Smithy, 79 Howden Hall Road, Edinburgh, EH16 6PW
OS grid reference
NT 273 680
Coordinates
55.90037, -3.16287
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is an 18th century smithy located at 79 Howden Hall Road in Edinburgh. It is a traditional, symmetrical, single-storey cottage with three bays, featuring deep-set openings and a steeply pitched roof covered with thackstanes. The exterior is constructed of random rubble with a red sandstone basecourse.

The southwest (front) elevation has a central replacement door. The windows are timber sash and case with 8-pane lying pane glazing. The building also has ashlar coped skews and coped ridge stacks topped with thackstanes, and the roof is finished with graded grey slate.

Local climate

Smithy, 79 Howden Hall 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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