Factor's House, Mortonhall House, Frogston Road East, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 April 1996. Farmhouse.
Factor's House, Mortonhall House, Frogston Road East, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lime-myrtle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1996
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 262 685
- Coordinates
- 55.90412, -3.18107
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Factor's House is a two-storey farmhouse built around 1835, designed in an L-plan and located to the northeast of the stables. The building is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone, featuring stugged ashlar dressings. It has timber sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern and a platform roof covered with grey slates, complemented by ashlar coped skews and shouldered, corniced ashlar stacks.
On the northeast elevation, there is a central six-panelled door with a four-pane letterbox fanlight above it, and a consoled cornice over the door. To the right at ground level, there is a window, with two small windows positioned above on the first floor, just below the eaves, featuring lying-pane glazing. An advanced wing is located to the left, which includes a window on each floor.
The rear elevation has single-storey service additions that create a courtyard at the back of the house. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.
Local climate
Factor's House, Mortonhall House, Frogston Road East, 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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