Forbes Gardens, East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. House.
Forbes Gardens, East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- waning-slate-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 131 782
- Coordinates
- 55.98958, -3.39422
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forbes Gardens is a later 19th century single storey and attic dwelling house with three bays. It is constructed from square and snecked rubble, featuring ashlar margins and dressings.
The north elevation, which is the principal facade, has two large windows on the ground floor and an entrance to a close on the right. Above, there are three piended dormer windows in the attic, with the right-hand pair linked by a wallhead stack.
The east elevation is an adjoining building. The south elevation includes a single storey projecting bow extension with two large windows. The west elevation is also an adjoining building.
The house has modern sash and case windows, with the upper sash having eight panes and the lower sash having two panes. It is topped with a grey slate roof and features large wallhead stacks at both the front and rear.
Local climate
Forbes Gardens, East Terrace, High Street, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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