43 Esslemont Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1997. House. 2 related planning applications.

43 Esslemont Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
old-cellar-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1997
Type
House
Address
43 Esslemont Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5PY
OS grid reference
NT 269 707
Coordinates
55.92435, -3.17135
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

43 Esslemont Road is a house designed by H E Clifford in 1911. It is a two-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone, featuring polished ashlar dressings and a cornice.

The entrance elevation faces southwest and includes a single-storey entrance porch with a cornice. The porch has a four-centred arch with a keystone, and to the right, there is a tripartite window. The central bay of the ground floor features a tripartite window with stone mullions, which is mirrored by another tripartite window on the first floor above. The second storey has a tripartite dormer, while the ground floor bay to the left has a six-light canted window with stone mullions. Above this, on the first floor, is a stone-mullioned quadripartite window, with a quadripartite dormer on the second floor. The bay to the right has a full-height four-light bowed window, and there is also a quadripartite dormer in the attic.

The windows are primarily two-pane timber sash and case, although the dormer windows were replaced with PVCu in 1997. The leaded window in the porch features stained glass motifs. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with shouldered and deeply corniced gablehead stacks, a ridge stack, and a mutual corniced stack shared with 37 Esslemont Road. The building has tall moulded cans and coped skews.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is enclosed by low coped boundary walls along Mayfield Road and Esslemont Road.

Local climate

43 Esslemont 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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