Gothic Cottage, 24 Russell Place, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Gothic cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gothic Cottage, 24 Russell Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- roaming-vault-furze
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Gothic cottage
- Address
- Gothic Cottage, 24 Russell Place, Edinburgh, EH5 3HW
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 768
- Coordinates
- 55.97838, -3.20515
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This Gothic Cottage, built around 1825, is a single-storey structure with a piend roof and three bays. The front is finished in polished ashlar, while the sides and rear are made of coursed rubble. It features a base course and overhanging eaves, with chamfered surrounds around the windows and door.
On the principal elevation, there is an advanced bay with a piend roof. The doorway is flanked by two windows set back in a veranda, which is formed by stone piers with arch-headed recessed panels. These are linked by a delicate cast iron grille with two arches. The eaves display cast-iron tracery. The timber panelled door has a decorative fanlight above, all within a chamfered surround, and is flanked by two bipartite gothic windows. The mirrored bays on the left and right have stone piers with arch-headed recessed panels on the outer sides and hoodmoulded bipartite gothic windows.
The windows are timber sash and case with a lying-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are diagonally set decorative square-section corniced stacks on the ridges, topped with octagonal cans.
Local climate
Gothic Cottage, 24 Russell 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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