1, 3 Comely Bank, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. House. 6 related planning applications.

1, 3 Comely Bank, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
House
Address
1, 3 Comely Bank, Edinburgh, EH4 1AN
OS grid reference
NT 239 747
Coordinates
55.95978, -3.21919
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 3 Comely Bank in Edinburgh were built between 1888 and 1889 to meet the elevation requirements set by R R Anderson, who was the feuing architect for the Fettes Trustees. The design is intended to harmonise with the work of Thomas Brown. The building is three stories high with an attic and features a three-window and canted bay facing Comely Bank, and a two-window facade on East Fettes Avenue. It is constructed from ashlar stone with a channelled ground floor and has a pavilion roof with a dormer. There is a lower wing at the back of the building.

Local climate

1, 3 Comely Bank, 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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