Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
pale-sill-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Schoolhouse
Address
Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh, EH10 4PX
OS grid reference
NT 244 714
Coordinates
55.93001, -3.21006
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gospel Hall, located at 140 Morningside Road in Morningside, Edinburgh, dates back to 1823. It is a small, single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan schoolhouse that features later side wings added in 1980. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with droved ashlar on the front and sides, and a rubble rear that includes droved quoins. It has a base course and an eaves band.

On the front elevation, the central bay is advanced and features a single window that breaks the eaves, set within a square ashlar panel that bears a clock and connects to a half-pitched roof. The outer bays have entrance doors beneath deep cornices with stylised brackets; these modern doors are complemented by rectangular fanlights, with the left door having a fanlight of four oval panes and the right door having four rectangular panes. There are modern, flat-roofed side wings on both the right and left.

The north and south elevations contain single windows, some of which are blocked and obscured by extensions. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with slate and features a piend design, lead flashings, and a small louvred conical iron chimney at the rear, along with a rooflight on the north side.

Inside, there is a single room with a plain plastered cove ceiling. The property is enclosed by a stepped rubble boundary wall topped with semi-circular coping, along with a plain cast-iron gate and railings.

Local climate

Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, 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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