Whytock & Reid, Sunbury Works, Sunbury House, Belford Mews, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 November 2001. Workshop.
Whytock & Reid, Sunbury Works, Sunbury House, Belford Mews, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-panel-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 November 2001
- Type
- Workshop
- OS grid reference
- NT 238 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95224, -3.22118
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whytock & Reid, Sunbury Works is a former cabinet makers workshop built in 1886. It is a three-storey building with a basement and attic, featuring a rectangular plan with 16 bays and a two-bay gable end on the southwest elevation. A three-storey residential block, constructed in 2008, is linked to the northeast. The building is made of red brick, with dressed ashlar cills and brick lintels, and has plain brick skews and skewputts.
The ground floor has irregular fenestration, including some later doorways and windows, while the first and second floors have regular fenestration. Notably, there is a small canted window at the southeast corner on the first floor, which has a moulded cill and lintel. The attic features some later rooflights.
The windows throughout have later 9-pane glazing, with fixed 6-pane glazing in the canted window. The roof is pitched, covered with grey slates, and has a lead ridge and flashing. Brick gable end stacks have ashlar bases and neck copes, topped with modern clay cans.
Local climate
Whytock & Reid, Sunbury Works, Sunbury House, Belford Mews, 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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