64-66 Albion Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 September 1997. Office building.
64-66 Albion Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- first-cornice-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 September 1997
- Type
- Office building
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 748
- Coordinates
- 55.96079, -3.16648
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
64-66 Albion Road is an office building constructed around 1900 for Redpath Brown and Co as St Andrew's Steelworks. It features an English Renaissance style and is two stories tall with three bays. The front is made of red sandstone ashlar, while the sides and rear are built from bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a band course, cornice, balustrade, and stone mullions and transoms.
The principal elevation is symmetrical, showcasing an architraved and corniced doorpiece with a panel featuring "RB and Co" in the center of the lintel. Above this is a bipartite window framed by pilasters and topped with a segmental pediment. Full-height canted bays are located on each side, each with dividing cornices and Elizabethan 'hall' windows on the ground floor. The first floor has smaller windows, all of which are mullioned and transomed, with single light transomed windows flanking those on the first floor. The bays are topped with parapets that feature round-arched panels with curved armorial reliefs.
The side elevation is asymmetrical in its fenestration and has an ashlar wallhead coping that sweeps up at intervals. The northwest side is attached to a neighboring tenement, while the southwest side includes a former steelworks connected by a brick link, which is not part of the current listing.
The front features timber sash and case windows behind transoms, with 8-pane sash and case windows on the side and a flat roof. There is a low wall made of coursed rubble-faced sandstone with moulded coping, corner piers topped with ball finials, and ornate cast-iron railings that enclose shallow forecourts and angle towards the entrance doorway.
The interior was not seen in 1996, and extensive later industrial and warehousing outbuildings to the south and east are not included in the listing.
Local climate
64-66 Albion 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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