3 Minto Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House. 4 related planning applications.
3 Minto Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- salt-cellar-rush
- 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
- 3 Minto Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1RG
- OS grid reference
- NT 265 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93708, -3.17718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Minto Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey classical house with a symmetrical three-bay design and single-storey wings on either side. The house is constructed of cream sandstone polished ashlar, featuring a base course, cill course, and architraves around the first-floor windows. It has a cornice and a balustraded parapet, along with giant order pilaster quoins.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central bay that is slightly advanced. It features an arched doorway with a panelled door, a plate glass fanlight, and flanking pilasters. The doorcase is corniced and supported by Doric columns, with a balustraded parapet that forms a balcony above a single window on the first floor. There are tripartite windows set in arched panels at the ground level on the outer left and right, with single windows above on the first floor. The single-storey wings to the north and south incorporate pedestrian gates and have a single window with a balustraded parapet.
The house has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate piended roof. The boundary is marked by a low coped wall along the street, with replacement railings. The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
3 Minto Street, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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