60, 62, 64, 66 Morningside Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1993. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.

60, 62, 64, 66 Morningside Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
low-bonework-ridge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Tenement
Address
60, 62, 64, 66 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4BZ
OS grid reference
NT 244 717
Coordinates
55.93255, -3.21041
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

60, 62, 64, 66 Morningside Road is a later 19th-century tenement building designed by Alexander W Macnaughton in 1893. It is a plain three-storey and attic structure with five bays, featuring a single-storey projecting timber shopfront at No 66. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with stugged ashlar and polished dressings.

The front elevation of the tenement has a chamfered centre bay that connects recessed and advanced bays, with a bank course above the first floor. It includes single and bipartite windows. The left bays feature a three-bay projecting timber shopfront with a dentilled cornice and blocking course, framed by moulded pilasters. There is a recessed doorway at the centre with glazed ingoes and an encaustic tile floor beneath a depressed arch, which has a replacement door and a dentilled pediment. The frieze above the doorway is slightly advanced and has a broken and scrolled pediment that interrupts the cornice. The outer bays have depressed-arched display windows set on panelled stallrisers, with elaborate fluted columnar mullions at the doorway. The display window continues with similar detailing on the return to the right. A modern projecting sign is located at the northern end. The building features timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing and a slate mansard roof with shared stacks.

Inside, there is a decorative plaster cornice and some original fittings, including dentilled and corniced shelving units.

Local climate

60, 62, 64, 66 Morningside 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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