March Hall Nursing Home, 3 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Nursing home.
March Hall Nursing Home, 3 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Nursing home
- OS grid reference
- NT 270 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93707, -3.169
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
March Hall Nursing Home is a two-storey, L-plan picturesque house built in 1854, with modern extensions. It is designed in the style of architects Bryce and Burn and features a service wing to the north. The exterior is made of stugged, squared, and snecked cream sandstone ashlar, with a base course, dividing band course, overhanging eaves, and decoratively carved bargeboards.
On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a tripartite doorway in an advanced bay to the left of the center, featuring a panelled door and a small-paned fanlight, with a single window above. To the penultimate left, there are single windows on both floors, with the first-floor window breaking the eaves and topped with a pediment. An advanced bay to the outer left adjoins the service wing, with a single window at the ground floor outer right and a central window above. There is also an advanced, M-gabled, single-storey extension in the bay to the outer right, which has a bipartite window on the first floor above.
The south-east elevation is three bays wide, with a tripartite window in the outer left bay on the ground floor and a bipartite window above. The outer right bays feature M-gabled roofs, and there is an advanced window at ground level, now linked to a modern extension, which has a pierced parapet forming a balcony to the bipartite window and doorways to the first floor above.
The service wing's south elevation has an advanced doorway to the outer right at the re-entrant angle, with a boarded door and a three-pane fanlight, along with a small single window above. There are single windows on both floors in the outer left bay and an escape stair leading to a doorway at the first-floor level. The west elevation of the service wing has two bays, with single windows on both floors in the outer right bay, two boarded doors at ground level to the outer left, and a single window with a pediment breaking the eaves above.
Inside, the entrance hall features original patterned tiling on the floor and a dog-leg stair with a finely carved baluster. The principal ground floor rooms to the east and south have ornate moulded ceilings, cornices, and plasterwork panels on the walls, adorned with strapwork detailing.
Local climate
March Hall Nursing Home, 3 Marchhall Crescent, 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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