Consultants' Offices (former Assistant Superintendent's House) is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 2014. Office.
Consultants' Offices (former Assistant Superintendent's House)
- WRENN ID
- late-corner-gilt
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 December 2014
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 714
- Coordinates
- 55.93046, -3.19879
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, originally the Assistant Superintendent's House, was designed by Auldjo Jamieson and Arnott in 1932. It is a single-storey, five-bay neo-Georgian house with a distinctive C-plan layout. The house features a wide, swept roof with deep overhanging eaves and a central entrance door that is deeply recessed under a raised projecting roof. The exterior is made of pink squared rubble with ashlar details, and the main elevation faces south within the undulating wooded grounds of the hospital. The building has an eaves course and small-paned glazing in metal casement windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a stone ridge, while the stacks have decorative scroll details at the shoulders and clay cans, some of which are missing.
Inside, there is a simple but largely complete 1930s interior, as observed in 2014, featuring a rear corridor that provides access to all rooms, along with timber doors and chimneypieces.
Local climate
Consultants' Offices (former Assistant Superintendent's House) 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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