75, 77, 79 Lothian Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
75, 77, 79 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- winding-lintel-ivory
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2001
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 75, 77, 79 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AW
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 732
- Coordinates
- 55.94675, -3.20551
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
75, 77, and 79 Lothian Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey, five-bay plain classical terraced tenement designed by David McGibbon in 1863. The building is constructed of coursed ashlar and features later shops on the ground floor. It has a stepped continuous cornice above the shops, a cill course at the third floor level, and a moulded eaves cornice.
The windows on the first and second floors are set in lugged and bracketed surrounds, while the outer bays have bipartite windows. The building includes plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Additionally, there is a shouldered wallhead stack with circular cans and corniced ridge stacks also with circular cans.
Local climate
75, 77, 79 Lothian 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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