52 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

52 Main Street, Ratho

WRENN ID
long-pinnacle-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 March 1994
Type
Cottage
Address
52 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
OS grid reference
NT 138 707
Coordinates
55.92197, -3.37987
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

52 Main Street in Ratho is a mid-19th century single-storey terraced cottage with a rectangular plan. The exterior features coursed whinstone with dressed sandstone margins and quoins, along with a sandstone eaves band.

On the main elevation, there is a modern door located off-centre to the right, which is accessed by two steps. To the left of the door, there are two windows, and there is a single window on the outer right. The windows are 12-pane sash and case style. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has semi-circular red clay ridge tiles, along with ashlar coping to the skews and a rendered, coped chimney stack.

Local climate

52 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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