38 Lauder Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
38 Lauder Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- turning-banister-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1992
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 38 Lauder Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1UE
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93631, -3.18833
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38 Lauder Road is a villa built around 1869, featuring two stories and three bays, with the entrance bay recessed. The structure is made of squared and snecked rubble, with finely stugged and coursed ashlar and polished dressings on the entrance elevation. It has base and eaves courses, stop-filleted quoin strips with miniature carved capitals, and a bracketed cornice. The windows have raised architraved surrounds.
On the entrance elevation, there is a stone porch located in the re-entrant angle of the recessed bay on the outer left. This porch is supported by three detached columns with carved capitals featuring roses, daffodils, and thistles, which hold up two segmental arches with keystones. Above the porch is a bracketed cornice topped with decorative cast-iron brattising. The entrance has a panelled door with architraved surrounds and a segmental-arched fanlight, along with a wooden soffit and encaustic-tiled floor. Above the entrance, there is a single window, and to the right on the ground floor, there is a double window with a slightly advanced surround and entablature. Above this is a bipartite window, and to the outer right, there is a full-height canted bay with a dividing entablature.
The north elevation is blank, while the south elevation features a painted glass window at the ground floor of the advanced entrance bay at the center. The west elevation includes a contemporary single-storey square-plan service wing with a piended roof on the left, a secondary entrance to the right, and irregular fenestration at the first floor, along with a nepus gable and dormer window above.
The villa has plate glass sash and case windows on the east side and 8-pane sash and case windows on the west side. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashing, moulded eaves guttering, and four wallhead stacks, three of which are shouldered and rendered.
The interior was not seen in 1990. There is a low ashlar coped boundary wall along the street, and a garage is attached to the south side.
Local climate
38 Lauder 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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