St Catherine's House, Howdenhall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 6 related planning applications.

St Catherine's House, Howdenhall Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
low-cupola-bittern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
House
Address
St Catherine's House, Howdenhall Road, Edinburgh, EH16 6PG
OS grid reference
NT 272 684
Coordinates
55.90326, -3.1646
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Catherine's House, located on Howdenhall Road in Edinburgh, was originally built by John Simpson in 1806, with further alterations and additions made around 1835 by G S Aitken. The house is two stories high and features four windows, constructed from coursed rubble with quoins and margins. It has a central wallhead chimney and a piended roof. Notable architectural features include pilastered bay windows and a trellis porch, likely added around 1835. There is a single-storey addition to the west that includes a Doric portico, as well as a two-storey, three-window addition on the east side, which has a balustraded parapet. The building also has a basement at the back.

Local climate

St Catherine's House, Howdenhall Road, 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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