3 Abercorn Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2002. 1 related planning application.
3 Abercorn Gardens, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- gilded-ledge-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2002
- Address
- 3 Abercorn Gardens, Edinburgh, EH8 7BL
- OS grid reference
- NT 289 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95503, -3.1401
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Abercorn Gardens in Edinburgh is a plain classical terrace building dating from around 1825. It consists of two houses, each two stories high with a basement, and features six bays. The exterior is made of ashlar stone, with the ground floor channelled and the basements droved, while the rear and sides are constructed from rubble. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, along with an eaves course and a blocking course.
Access to the basement area is provided by stone steps and platts. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, with plain aprons beneath the first-floor windows. The outer left house (No. 3) has a timber panelled door with a border glazed fanlight, while the outer right house (No. 2) features a modern glazed door with a fanlight.
No. 3 has timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing on the ground and first floors, while other windows have non-traditional glazing. The roof is pitched with piend, covered in grey slates, and there are stone skews between the houses. The building has a corniced ridge stack and wall-head stacks, with some semicircular cans.
There is a low ashlar-coped boundary wall that belongs only to No. 3.
Local climate
3 Abercorn Gardens, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 1 application
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