56 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.
56 Main Street, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- seventh-loggia-grove
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 56 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
- OS grid reference
- NT 138 707
- Coordinates
- 55.92194, -3.38005
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
56 Main Street in Ratho is a mid-19th century pair of houses, built after 1852. This two-storey, three-bay terrace has a near-symmetrical rectangular plan and was raised from a single storey relatively soon after its construction. The exterior is made of coursed whinstone with droved sandstone margins and quoins, featuring a sandstone eaves band.
On the main elevation, there are three irregular bays at the ground level. The left outer bay has a window, while the door is off-centre to the left for No 56, and the right outer bay contains both a window and a door for No 54. At the first floor, there are three windows that are symmetrically arranged. The windows are 12-pane sash and case style. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has ashlar coping on the skews, with rendered and coped apex stacks.
Local climate
56 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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- 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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