4 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Villa. 1 related planning application.

4 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Villa
Address
4 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, EH10 4BW
OS grid reference
NT 247 721
Coordinates
55.93614, -3.20536
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Greenhill Gardens is a villa built around 1850, featuring two storeys and a three-bay rectangular plan. The exterior is made of squared and snecked sandstone, with stugged ashlar on the entrance elevation. It has chamfered reveals, overhanging eaves, and gabletted single windows on the first floor.

On the west entrance elevation, there is a central bay with an architraved basket-arched doorway and a fanlight above. The doorway has a boarded door with decorative iron hinges and a plate glass fanlight. Above the doorway is a window on the first floor. The outer left bay is advanced and features a two-storey canted window, while the outer right bay has single windows.

The north elevation has an advanced gabled bay in the centre, with a machiolated corbel supporting a corniced oriel window that has round-headed lights. There is a single window on the first floor to the outer right.

The south elevation is M-gabled with irregularly placed windows, including six-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has corniced gablehead stacks, along with a timber finial on the main gable.

The interior was not seen in 1991. There are also garage gatepiers and boundary walls, with a pitched roof garage detached to the south. The gatepiers are square in section, and there is a low saddleback-coped boundary wall along the street, with higher mutual walls.

Local climate

4 Greenhill Gardens, 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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