8 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2003. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
8 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2003
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 8 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5QS
- OS grid reference
- NT 272 707
- Coordinates
- 55.92385, -3.16649
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Gilmerton Road in Edinburgh is a pair of single-storey cottages built in the mid-19th century, incorporating some earlier materials and featuring later alterations. The northeast elevation has two cart arches on the left, which have been infilled with stone and now contain windows. In the center, there are two dormers with piend roofs covered in slate. At the rear, there are two later porches. The cottages are constructed from random rubble with dressed stone quoins, skews, and window margins, and they have graded slates on the roof. The brick chimneys are topped with tall cylindrical cans. The windows are timber sash and case with small-pane glazing.
The property also includes a rubble boundary wall with some brick infill.
Local climate
8 Gilmerton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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