Inchgarvie House is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Villa. 4 related planning applications.

Inchgarvie House

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Villa
Address
Inchgarvie House, EH30 9SJ
OS grid reference
NT 114 786
Coordinates
55.99219, -3.42139
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Inchgarvie House is a large villa built around 1880, with a west wing dated 1883 and some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is two stories with an attic and features a single-storey and attic west wing. It is constructed of red brick with contrasting ashlar dressings and has half-timbered gables, showcasing an Old English style. The exterior includes a base course, a band course at the first floor, and a string course at the attic level, topped with a central cupola.

On the south elevation, there is a central projecting gabled bay with an arched entrance door that has splays under a hoodmould. Above the entrance, there is a tripartite window. The gable features a corbelled half-timber design with three lights and a decorated bargeboard. To the right, there is a modern entrance with a tripartite window above. The left side has three bays with a modern door in the center, a four-light fanlight, and various window arrangements. The west wing is L-shaped, with a single dormer in the west range and a half-timbered gable on the south wing, which includes a tripartite window and a modern conservatory in the re-entrant angle.

The west elevation has a modern door flanked by a window, with a roof dormer above. The left side features a half-timbered gable, while the right bay has single windows on both the ground and first floors, with plain bargeboards.

On the north elevation, there are half-timbered M gables on the left, canted bay windows on the ground floor, and tripartite windows above. The attic has single windows with timber cantilever balconies and plain bargeboards. There is a recessed bay with a modern door and a tripartite window above, alongside a half-timbered gable to the right. The ground floor has a tripartite window, a bipartite window on the first floor, and a single attic window. The west wing features two ground floor windows on the left, a timbered dormer above, and a half-timbered gable to the right with a tripartite window on the ground and a single attic window.

The east elevation is two stories with an attic and includes a canted bay on the right, a half-timbered gable, and a tripartite window in the attic. To the left, there is a single window on the ground floor and two single windows with timbered gablets above.

The house has modern glazing throughout, a rosemary tiled roof with fishscale bands, polygonal and lozenge plan brick stacks, and terracotta ridging. The interior was not seen in 2000.

Local climate

Inchgarvie House 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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