Eastbourne House, 76 Promenade and 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace, Joppa, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 March 1989. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Eastbourne House, 76 Promenade and 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace, Joppa, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- third-spire-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1989
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Eastbourne House, 76 Promenade and 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace, Joppa, Edinburgh, EH15 2EJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 313 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95056, -3.10064
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eastbourne House, located at 76 Promenade and 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace in Joppa, Edinburgh, is a 2-storey, 3-bay irregular-plan Rogue Baronial villa designed by James C Walker in 1868, with later alterations and additions. The building features stugged ashlar with polished dressings, a base course, a moulded string course between the ground and first floor, and an eaves course.
The northeast elevation, which faces the promenade, includes a prominent 3-stage entrance tower at the center. This tower has a round-arched doorpiece with a key-stone, panelled two-leaf outer doors, and a stained glass upper panel on the vestibule door, topped by a plate glass semicircular fanlight. Above the entrance, there is a corbelled balustraded balcony leading to a pedimented window at the second stage, and a shouldered window at the third stage, which also has chamfered angles. The tower is capped with a polygonal piended roof adorned with cast-iron brattishing. To the right, there is a window on each floor, with a cast-iron window guard and a stylised pedimented and finialed dormer head on the first floor that breaks the eaves. The outer left features a canted 2-storey window in a gabled bay, complete with coped skews and kneelers.
The southwest elevation is not fully visible as of 1994, but it includes a rounded-headed stained or painted glass stair window and a single-storey addition at the southeast corner.
The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, and a grey slate roof, with purple slate on the rear and fish-scale slates on the piended tower at the center. Gablehead stacks are present, along with tall moulded octagonal chimney cans and a finial on the skewputt to the outer right.
The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of a squared and snecked sandstone wall with moulded coping along the street, featuring stop-chamfered arrises on the corniced pedestrian gatepiers and a tall wrought-iron gate.
Local climate
Eastbourne House, 76 Promenade and 20 and 21 Bedford Terrace, Joppa, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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