Pilrig House, 30 Pilrig House Close, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
Pilrig House, 30 Pilrig House Close, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solitary-spandrel-rook
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pilrig House, 30 Pilrig House Close, Edinburgh, EH6 5RF
- OS grid reference
- NT 263 757
- Coordinates
- 55.96943, -3.18129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pilrig House, located at 30 Pilrig House Close in Edinburgh, is a 17th-century L-plan tower house that was restored by Michael Laird & Partners between 1984 and 1985. The building is three stories tall with an attic and features a stair tower topped with a corbelled caphouse. The exterior is constructed of rubble with polished cream sandstone dressings and harled surfaces, showcasing chamfered reveals, crowstepped gables, and second-floor windows that break the eaves in finialled gableheads.
On the southeast elevation, the house has a three-bay layout. The center bay features a curvilinear gable from around 1700 with an apex stack. There is an early 19th-century columned doorway at the first floor, accessed by stone stairs with carved steps, leading to a panelled door and a fanlight with astragals of four trefoiled arches. Ground floor windows flank the stairs, while the second floor has two single windows and a bull's-eye window in the gablehead. The outer bays also contain single windows. A modern square, wall-mounted sundial is positioned on the outer left at the second floor, above a carved armorial stone with angel heads.
The northwest elevation features an advanced gabled wing to the right with an apex stack and single windows to the left. The return elevation and left wing also have single windows. The stair tower, located in the re-entrant angle, has a rounded corner, a ground floor doorway, and a rectangular caphouse that is corbelled to a square at the second floor.
The northeast elevation is two-bay and gabled, with an apex stack and single windows. The southwest elevation is five-bay, with two gabled bays to the right that include an apex stack and single windows, while the left bays have irregular windows.
The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a slate roof with a stone ridge, featuring five coped ashlar apex stacks. The interior was not seen in 1993. Additionally, there is a terrace wall with an ashlar balustrade and coped dies at intervals on the northwest side.
Local climate
Pilrig House, 30 Pilrig House Close, 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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