Staff Quarters, Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital, Spring Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 1989. Nurses' home, flats.

Staff Quarters, Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital, Spring Gardens, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
slow-granite-ochre
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 February 1989
Type
Nurses' home, flats
Address
Staff Quarters, Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital, Spring Gardens, Edinburgh, EH8 8HT
OS grid reference
NT 273 741
Coordinates
55.95497, -3.16582
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Staff Quarters at the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital in Spring Gardens, Edinburgh, was designed by H O Tarbolton in 1927. This symmetrical, H-plan building originally served as a nurses' home and is now converted into flats as of 2007. It features a recessed two-storey and attic, six-bay central range flanked by three-storey, two-bay outer sections, which have distinctive jerkinhead roofs. The structure is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern and includes rectangular window openings with brick lintel details, a base course, and a string course.

The main elevation to the west showcases an advanced single-storey entrance porch with a pan-tiled bell-cast roof. The east elevation features stair towers positioned in the re-entrant angles. The building predominantly has 12-pane non-traditional casement windows and a mansard roof on the central range, with modern red pantiles.

Local climate

Staff Quarters, Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital, Spring Gardens, 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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