Sergeants' Mess, Redford Cavalry Barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 2017. Sergeant's mess.

Sergeants' Mess, Redford Cavalry Barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
knotted-lintel-acorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 2017
Type
Sergeant's mess
OS grid reference
NT 223 695
Coordinates
55.91264, -3.24371
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Sergeants' Mess at Redford Cavalry Barracks on Colinton Road, Edinburgh, is a single-storey building with an asymmetrical plan. It features a 7-bay section to the northwest, built between 1909 and 1915, designed by Harry B Measures, and a later 5-bay section to the southeast, constructed around 1940, along with a 3-bay link building.

The structure is made of dark, coursed rock-faced rubble with pale ashlar dressings. It includes a cill course, a band course, and an eaves course, while the linking section has a blocking course. The windows are designed with projecting cills.

The main facade faces northeast. The 5-bay section from around 1940 is located on the left and features slightly advanced end bays. To the right, there is a 2-leaf timber entrance door set in a simple architrave. The earlier 7-bay section has a central tripartite bay topped with a scrolled and finialled pediment, flanked by paired windows.

The windows in the earlier section are mainly timber casement windows with 6-pane glazing in the upper lights and 4-pane glazing in the lower lights. The later section primarily features timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing. Both sections have piended roofs covered with grey slates and include cornice stacks with red clay cans.

The interior, observed in 2016, contains some rooms with simple cornicing and several part-glazed timber doors.

Local climate

Sergeants' Mess, Redford Cavalry Barracks, Colinton 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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