218-222 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

218-222 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
lone-gravel-saffron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Tenement
Address
218-222 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, EH10 4DE
OS grid reference
NT 244 720
Coordinates
55.93521, -3.21042
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

218-222 Bruntsfield Place is a four-storey, 15-bay tenement building designed by Dunn & Findlay around 1905. The front is made of cream sandstone with an ashlar finish, while the rear and sides are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. The building features a cill course on the first and second floors and an eaves cornice. The third-floor windows extend above the parapet into a mansard attic, showcasing ovolo moulded reveals. The windows are architraved, with the first-floor windows of Nos 212-216 having cornices, and those of Nos 218-226 featuring a Gibbsian surround. The dormerheads are semi-circular and pedimented, with ashlar mullions. The doorways are moulded, leading to panelled doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights.

On the southeast elevation facing Bruntsfield Place, Nos 212-216 is a six-bay tenement with a central doorway leading to a common stair, flanked by main door flats. The centre bays have single windows, while the bays to the left and right feature bipartite windows. The outer bays project and have bipartite windows, with the third-floor windows topped by half-pyramidal finialled roofs. Nos 218-222 also has six bays with a central common stair doorway and main door flats. The centre bays have single windows, and the third-floor windows have triangular dormerheads. The left and right bays feature bipartite windows, with full-height canted windows breaking the parapet and topped with half-pyramidal finialled roofs. Nos 224 and 226 consist of three bays, with a common stair doorway to the right and a main door flat to the left. The centre bay has single windows, while the left bay has a full-height canted bay with a half-pyramidal roof, and the right bay has bipartite windows.

The southeast elevation includes banded cill courses on the first and second floors, with single windows in the centre bay. There is a gabled bay with an apex stack to the right and a wallhead stack to the left. The building features timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, a green slate mansard roof with lead flashings, one corniced apex, and one wallhead stack. The interior was not seen in 1992. A low stepped rubble boundary wall runs along the front.

Local climate

218-222 Bruntsfield 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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