Bell's Mills House, Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1965. Villa. 4 related planning applications.
Bell's Mills House, Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- noble-joist-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1965
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Bell's Mills House, Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DG
- OS grid reference
- NT 237 736
- Coordinates
- 55.95004, -3.22292
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bell's Mills House is a classical villa built around 1780, located on Belford Road in Edinburgh. The building is two stories high and has three bays, featuring a symmetrical design with a later small single-storey wing to the left (south). It is constructed from coursed and squared random rubble, with some droved ashlar quoins and painted ashlar surrounds. The eaves have a corniced course and a shallow blocking course above. The main entrance is centrally located and has a narrow rectangular fanlight with a corniced surround. The windows on the east elevation have deep moulded architraved surrounds, and there are three small rooflights.
On the west (rear) elevation, there is an advanced curved stair tower to the left (north) and a prominent nepus gable off-centre to the right (south), with irregular fenestration. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is pitched, featuring broad sandstone copes and a sandstone ridge, covered with grey slates. The gable end stacks are coped rubble, with some octagonal clay cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was remodeled in 2008 by The Burrell Company Ltd to serve as a modern residential dwelling.
Local climate
Bell's Mills House, Bell's Mills, Belford 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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