Summerhall, 6 Baird Road, Ratho is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Cottages.
Summerhall, 6 Baird Road, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- ancient-clay-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- Cottages
- OS grid reference
- NT 139 707
- Coordinates
- 55.9225, -3.37778
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Summerhall, located at 6 Baird Road in Ratho, is a pair of cottages dating from around 1830. The cottages are single storey with an attic and have a rectangular plan with five bays. They are constructed from squared and coursed whinstone, featuring stugged sandstone margins and pilaster quoins, while the side elevations are made of sandstone rubble. The design includes an eaves band and a base course.
The main elevation shows Primrose Cottage, which has three bays on the right, and Summerhall Cottage, which has two bays on the left. The window cills are supported by paired stone brackets, and above the doors are depressed triangular pediments that rest on shaped ashlar brackets, with the names of the cottages inscribed. There are a pair of bipartite dormers above the second and third bays, with a skylight to the left of the left dormer. Windows are also present in the gableheads of the left and return elevations, featuring four-pane sash and case windows. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with grey slate, with ashlar coping at the skews and bracketted skewputts. The cottages have apex stacks and a central ridge stack.
Surrounding the property is a coursed whinstone wall topped with ashlar slab coping, and there are sandstone obelisk piers marking the entrance.
Local climate
Summerhall, 6 Baird Road, 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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