Silvermills House, 3 West Silvermills Lane, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 July 1993. House. 3 related planning applications.
Silvermills House, 3 West Silvermills Lane, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-terrace-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Silvermills House, 3 West Silvermills Lane, Edinburgh, EH3 5BD
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 747
- Coordinates
- 55.95952, -3.20488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Silvermills House, located at 3 West Silvermills Lane in Edinburgh, dates from around 1760. It is a three-storey, three-bay house with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a single-storey addition that projects to the west. The exterior is constructed of coursed cream sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings, featuring architraved single windows and stugged quoins.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a centrally located lugged and architraved doorway with a cornice above and a boarded door. There are windows on the first and second floors, as well as in the remaining bays, except for the single pitch-roofed addition that projects from the left bay. The south elevation consists of two bays with two doorways at ground level and windows on the first and second floors in both bays, along with a small window in the gablehead. The north elevation also has two bays, but features six blocked windows and a fireplace. The rear (east) elevation has three bays with symmetrically arranged windows on each floor.
The house has small-pane sash and case windows with horns, a grey slate roof, large skylights, and corniced gablehead stacks. The interior has been entirely remodelled.
Local climate
Silvermills House, 3 West Silvermills Lane, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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