36 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 2000. Terrace houses. 2 related planning applications.

36 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
guardian-gateway-furze
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 February 2000
Type
Terrace houses
Address
36 Primrose Bank Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3JF
OS grid reference
NT 245 769
Coordinates
55.97932, -3.21035
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

36 Primrose Bank Road is a two-storey and attic terrace of four houses, designed by A Hunter Crawford in 1895, with later alterations and additions. The building is constructed of red brick and mock half-timbering, featuring contrasting stone dressings and a symmetrical layout. The bays are arranged in a 2-4-2 pattern, with the outer blocks slightly advanced and gabled. The base course is made of darker brick, with a stone band lintel course at the ground level and a battered stone band at the first-floor cills and eaves.

The principal elevation is symmetrically arranged with black and white painted projecting windows that have stone cills and brick bases in the first, fourth, fifth, and eighth bays. The remaining bays have off-centre doors, each with a projecting stone cornice above an oval fanlight and depressed-arched doorways. The doors are timber panelled with decorative hinges. The first floor of the central block and the attic floor of the outer blocks feature half-timbering. The fenestration is regular, with paired windows in the gables and two flat-roofed slate-hung dormers in the roof.

The side elevations include slated half-pitched-roofed porches, with the eastern porch located behind a later garage addition. A brick chimney breast breaks through the half-timbering in the gableheads.

The rear elevation has undergone considerable later alterations and additions. The windows are timber casements, with plate glass on the lower sections and four panes above on the ground floor, while the upper floors predominantly feature 16-pane windows. The roofs are red tiled, sweeping to overhanging eaves, with stone-coped brick stacks at the ridge and gable ends topped with decorative terracotta cans. The mutual skew is also stone-coped.

The property is enclosed by low stone walls and features stone and brick gatepiers with pyramidal caps at two central pedestrian gates.

Local climate

36 Primrose Bank 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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