Lady Anderson Memorial Cottage, 1, 1B Thorburn Road, Colinton, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Cottage.
Lady Anderson Memorial Cottage, 1, 1B Thorburn Road, Colinton, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chalk-stoat
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 218 690
- Coordinates
- 55.90821, -3.25232
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lady Anderson Memorial Cottage, built in 1921 by Begg and Lorne Campbell, is a single-storey and attic cottage located at 1, 1B Thorburn Road in Colinton, Edinburgh. The cottage features crow-stepped end gables and shouldered gable-end stacks, with an asymmetrical forward-facing gable at the front and a dormer with a shaped dormerhead at the rear. A canted corner on the northwest side displays the inscription "THE LADY ROWAND ANDERSON MEMORIAL COTTAGE." The exterior is constructed of snecked, rake-jointed yellow sandstone, accented with grey sandstone ashlar for the window and door dressings. It includes a base course and an eaves course.
The cottage has non-traditional uPVC doors on the east and west sides, while the main door on the west is framed in a roll-moulded architrave, featuring a cartouche above inscribed with "MA 1929 RRA." This cartouche is flanked by scrolls and topped with an angel head. The windows are irregularly arranged, predominantly featuring 16 and 24-pane glazing in modern casements. The shouldered stacks are topped with red clay cans, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate. Cast-iron down-pipes complete the structure.
Local climate
Lady Anderson Memorial Cottage, 1, 1B Thorburn Road, Colinton, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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