47 Greenbank Drive, City Hospital, Greenbank Drive, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 February 2002.

47 Greenbank Drive, City Hospital, Greenbank Drive, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
salt-passage-hazel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 February 2002
OS grid reference
NT 236 699
Coordinates
55.91651, -3.22263
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

48 Greenbank Drive is a pair of semi-detached cottages designed by Robert Morham around 1900, featuring an asymmetrical Arts and Crafts style. The cottages are two stories tall and have barge-boarded gables. The ground floor is constructed of red glazed brick, while the upper floor is finished with white rendering. The gables are adorned with red octagonal tile-hanging. Architectural details include a base course, a stepped tiled course between the ground and first floors, and broad bracketed eaves.

On the west elevation, there are recessed porches at both the outer right and left, supported by brick piers at the corners, leading to glazed timber panelled doors. A projecting gabled bay, located second from the left, features a tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor. Additionally, there is a pentice-roofed canted window in the second bay from the right, along with a tripartite window that has a gabled dormer head breaking the eaves above.

The north and south side elevations include a brick pier from the porch on the west side, a gabled bay with a single window above, and a single-storey section to the east.

The east (rear) elevation showcases two broad gabled bays with irregular fenestration, including glazed timber doors on the outer right and left.

The windows predominantly feature 4-pane glazing in the upper sashes, with plate glass in the lower sections, all set within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with red tiles and decorated with terracotta ridge tiles. Corniced red brick stacks with circular cans and cast-iron downpipes complete the exterior.

Local climate

47 Greenbank Drive, City Hospital, Greenbank Drive, 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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