Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. 2 related planning applications.
Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- standing-chimney-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Address
- Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
- OS grid reference
- NT 261 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94753, -3.18429
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Roxburgh Place Hall, located at the University of Edinburgh, was designed by Thomas Ross in 1909, with an adjoining church by Peter MacGregor Chalmers completed in 1913. This building features a 9-bay Scots Gothic style, with aisled former church halls and a square-plan unfinished tower to the northwest. The entrance bay on the west side, facing Roxburgh Place, is distinctive with its oriel window. The exterior is constructed from coursed, tooled rubble with ashlar margins, and includes a base course, cill course, cornice, and parapet on the church. The church has hoodmoulding and 3-light simple tracery windows on the west side, along with single-light clerestory windows on the east.
The entrance bay on the west is off-centre and crow-stepped, featuring a decorative double round-arched entrance with clustered colonettes and decorative capitals. It has a pair of 2-leaf boarded timber doors adorned with decorative cast iron hinges and multi-pane semi-circular fanlights above. Above the entrance is a 3-light oriel window.
The building predominantly showcases Gothic and round-arched simple tracery and lancet windows, all fitted with multi-pane leaded glass. The roof is covered with green graded slates, and the cast iron rainwater goods include decorative hoppers.
Inside, as seen in 2007, the church features a fine combination of ashlar and rubble. The entrance hall includes a stone balustraded staircase, and the ceiling is a boarded, ribbed timber barrel vault with carved bosses. The interior has 5-bay round-arched arcades supported by mostly octagonal piers with decorative carved capitals. There is a round-arched chancel arch with carved corbels, some stained glass in the apse, and a timber-fronted straight gallery at the rear.
Local climate
Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 2 Roxburgh Place, 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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