55 Abbeyhill is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 September 2008. Former police station. 1 related planning application.
55 Abbeyhill
- WRENN ID
- woven-pilaster-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 September 2008
- Type
- Former police station
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95442, -3.17367
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
55 Abbeyhill is a single-storey, six-bay former police station built in 1896 by Robert Morham. This irregular-plan building features a castellated Romanesque style with prominent corner turrets that have conical roofs covered in fishscale slates and advanced finials. The exterior is made of snecked, rock-faced red sandstone and includes a deep chamfered base course and a band course. Distinctive animal figure gargoyles adorn the structure.
The central entrance has a round-arched chamfered doorway with a recessed two-leaf studded timber door and a semi-circular fanlight above. The windows are round-arched with roll-moulded architraves, some featuring stone column mullions. The turrets are topped with gabled, louvred timber lucarnes.
Later additions include metal grids that obscure some windows. The roof is finished with grey slates and red ridge tiles that have ball finial details, while cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers complete the building's exterior.
Local climate
55 Abbeyhill 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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