62, 64 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
62, 64 Main Street, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- gentle-basalt-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 62, 64 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
- OS grid reference
- NT 138 707
- Coordinates
- 55.92186, -3.38033
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
62 and 64 Main Street in Ratho is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan house that is rendered with sandstone dressings.
The south elevation facing the street features windows that are evenly spaced, with three on the ground floor and three slightly narrower ones on the first floor. There is evidence of a blocked opening between the bays on the right, which was originally the main front but is now the rear. At the center, there is a shaped pediment above the eaves made of droved sandstone, which contains an armorial panel with bolection moulding.
The west elevation is a gable end with a window on both the ground and first floors to the right, and it includes scrolled skewputts.
The north elevation, which is the rear, has been reconstructed and consists of a five-bay main block arranged in groups of two and three on both the ground and first floors. There is an entrance wing that projects from the outer left.
The house features 12-pane sash and case windows, a red pantiled roof with semi-circular ridge tiles, and ashlar coping to the skews. The west gable has scrolled skewputts, while the east end has a broad coped stack and the west gablehead has a narrow coped stack.
Local climate
62, 64 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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