23 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 February 1993. 2 related planning applications.

23 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
guardian-spire-burdock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 February 1993
Address
23 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh, EH14 1AU
OS grid reference
NT 231 710
Coordinates
55.92596, -3.23106
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

21 Lockharton Gardens in Edinburgh is a terrace of 11 two-storey, two-bay houses built in 1909, featuring some rear extensions. The houses are constructed from cream sandstone, with coursed and snecked stonework and ashlar dressings. They have an eaves cornice and roll-moulded margins around the doors.

On the southwest elevation facing Lockharton Gardens, each pair of houses is mirrored around the center. The central bay contains two-leaf panelled entrance doors that open into a small tiled vestibule with a stained glass inner door. Flanking this are rectangular windows featuring distinctive heraldic motifs in stained glass, with a linked course above. There is a single window on the first floor, and the outer bays have two-storey canted windows made of ashlar. The central window on the first floor is topped with a segmental pediment that has a shallow keystone, along with an eaves cornice and blocking course.

The southeast elevation is three bays wide, with a gabled bay on the outer left that has an apex stack. This bay features a two-storey rectangular projection with a pitched roof and narrow windows on the returns. The central and right bays have flat-roofed sections with ashlar mullioned and single windows.

The northeast (rear) elevation consists of two bays, with the end terrace having three bays. There is a rear door in the right bay, a single window on the first floor, and another single window in the left bay at ground level. The first floor also features an ashlar mullioned bipartite window.

The northwest elevation is three bays wide, with a gable on the right bay that has a shaped apex and an arrowslit window in the gablehead, along with ball finials on the skews. There is one window on the first floor and two ground floor casement windows in the flat-roofed bays to the center and left, with a wallhead stack to the left.

The houses have timber sash and case windows, with six-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The roof is covered in green slate with red ridge tiles, featuring a double pitch at the front and a flat roof at the rear. There are mutual stacks, a moulded eaves gutter, and decorative gutterheads.

The interior was not seen in 1992. There is a low rubble boundary wall with saddleback coping that steps down towards the southeast, along with some cast-iron railings and gates.

Local climate

23 Lockharton Gardens, 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 25 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 6 m
  2. 21 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 8 m
  3. 19 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 14 m
  4. 17 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 22 m
  5. 15 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 28 m
  6. 13 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 37 m
  7. 11 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 44 m
  8. 9 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 50 m
  9. 7 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 58 m
  10. 5 Lockharton Gardens, Edinburgh Grade C 65 m