4 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. House.

4 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
idle-sentry-cobweb
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
House
Address
4 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1LH
OS grid reference
NT 257 724
Coordinates
55.93911, -3.19043
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Sylvan Place in Edinburgh is a building dating from around 1825. It is a two-storey structure with a basement and features a four-bay terrace that is continuous with Nos 2 and 3 Sylvan Place. The exterior is made of brownish stugged ashlar, with painted cills at No 5. The building includes a base course, a dividing band, and blocking courses, as well as recessed cills and window aprons.

On the west (principal) elevation, there are steps leading up to the entrances located at the second and third bays. These entrances have deep-set panelled doors and slightly recessed umbrella fanlights above corniced lintels. There are single windows above the entrances and in the remaining bays.

The windows at No 5 are four-pane sash and case, while No 4 features twelve-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has mutual gablehead stacks.

The interiors were not seen in 1990. There is a low coped boundary wall to the street, which is missing its railings.

Local climate

4 Sylvan Place, 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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