St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, 3 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, 3 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- graven-frieze-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, 3 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94728, -3.1846
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, located at 3 Roxburgh Place in Edinburgh, was designed by James Playfair and built between 1790 and 1791. This four-storey building, which includes a basement and attic, features a five-bay Classical tenement that originally served as a church and is currently used for commercial purposes with flats above, as of 2007. The exterior is made of ashlar stone with channelled rustication on the ground and basement levels, and it includes a band course, cornice, and raised cills. The first storey showcases three Venetian windows.
The building has five bays on the right side, with a central entrance that has an oversailing platt leading to a two-leaf, eight-panel timber entrance door. Above this entrance is a central three-bay pedimented wallhead dormer, which is flanked by piended dormers and features a gable stack.
On the far left, there is a stairwell bay that includes a Doric-columned, corniced doorpiece with a six-panel timber entrance door. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The building also has cast iron rainwater goods.
Additionally, there are low stone railings along the eastern side (Roxburgh Place), topped with spear-headed iron railings.
Local climate
St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, 3 Roxburgh Place, 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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