51 Spylaw Street, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
51 Spylaw Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- slow-pedestal-clover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 51 Spylaw Street, Edinburgh, EH13 0YR
- OS grid reference
- NT 215 690
- Coordinates
- 55.90781, -3.2565
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a single-storey, four-bay cottage from the earlier 19th century, situated on a steeply sloping site with a basement at the northern end. It is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble, featuring droved ashlar quoins and window dressings. The central entrance consists of a timber panelled door, flanked by windows, with a bipartite window to the left. To the right, there is a short section with higher skews but maintaining the same ridge height, which includes a blocked doorway and window on the outer right. The northern gable has a timber panelled door and a small window at the basement level.
The cottage has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with gable-head stacks that have ashlar copes and yellow clay cans. The skews are also ashlar-coped, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate.
Surrounding the property are coped random rubble boundary walls that enclose the garden, along with a later cast-iron gate and railings above the wall to the north.
Local climate
51 Spylaw 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 2 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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