126, 128, 130, 134 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.

126, 128, 130, 134 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
crooked-spire-torch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1993
Type
Tenement
Address
126, 128, 130, 134 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1AQ
OS grid reference
NT 254 719
Coordinates
55.93522, -3.19451
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

126, 128, 130, and 134 Marchmont Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey corner tenement built around 1800, designed in the Scottish 17th century style, with shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, featuring contrasting polished ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a cornice above the shopfronts, and string courses above the first and second floors.

The elevation facing Marchmont Road has altered shopfronts and a main door at ground level, with a chamfered angle that includes a doorway to the outer right. Above the shopfronts, there are five bays. The outer left bay features a full-height two-light canted window topped with a facetted pyramidal roof and a decorative cast-iron finial. The second and third bays contain bipartite windows, while the third dormer heads have stone finials. The fourth bay has single windows, and there is a semi-circular dormer head above the third-floor window. The angle bay to the outer right also has a full-height canted window with a facetted pyramidal roof and a decorative cast-iron finial.

The elevation facing Thirlestane Road is blank at ground level and has three bays above. The first and second bays each contain single windows, with stone finials on the dormer heads of the third floor. The outer right bay features a full-height two-light canted window, also with a facetted pyramidal roof and a decorative cast-iron finial. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, corniced mutual and wallhead stacks, and moulded octagonal cans.

Local climate

126, 128, 130, 134 Marchmont 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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