49 Ellen's Glen Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 April 1996. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

49 Ellen's Glen Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 April 1996
Type
Farmhouse
Address
49 Ellen's Glen Road, Edinburgh, EH17 7QA
OS grid reference
NT 282 695
Coordinates
55.91407, -3.14895
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 49 Ellen's Glen Road in Edinburgh, is a later 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse. It features harled rubble walls with painted ashlar margins and has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is finished with ashlar coped skews, a stone ridge, corniced stacks, and graded grey slates. There is a canted dormer and two large rooflights at the rear.

On the south elevation, there is a later 19th-century panelled door with an integral glazed panel at the top, flanked by two windows on the ground floor. The first floor has three windows. The north elevation has a modern glass door that is off-centre, with a window to the left and a large modern patio door to the outer left. The first floor features three windows, with a piended canted dormer to the attic on the right and a large modern rooflight to the left.

There is a modern addition to the east gable at ground floor level, with a window to the attic above. The interior has been largely altered. The boundary walls consist of rubble garden walls at the front and rear, topped with ashlar coping along the road.

Local climate

49 Ellen's Glen Road, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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