42 Lauder Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
42 Lauder Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- distant-spandrel-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1992
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 42 Lauder Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1UE
- OS grid reference
- NT 258 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93666, -3.18848
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building at 42 Lauder Road in Edinburgh is a villa dating from around 1869. It is two stories high and has a three-bay rectangular plan. The sides and rear are constructed of squared and snecked rubble, while the eastern elevation features ashlar stonework. Notable architectural details include a base course, a stone bracketed cornice, quoin strips, and raised window surrounds, which are segmental-arched on the first floor and have chamfered reveals.
The eastern entrance elevation showcases a central pilastered round-arched Venetian style doorpiece, supported by elaborately carved consoles and a bracketed segmental-arched canopy. Above the door is a panelled door with a plate glass fanlight, and there is a single window with a lugged surround above it. To the outer left, there is an advanced corniced tripartite window at ground floor level, with a single window above it also featuring a lugged surround. The outer right side has a full-height canted window with a dividing cornice.
On the southern elevation, there are single windows on both the ground and first floors. The villa has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof with lead flashing, and a dormer on the north side. There is also a small-pane box dormer connecting the southeast stack to the roof, along with four shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks, two of which are rendered on the south side, featuring moulded octagonal cans. A skylight is present on the south side.
The interior has not been seen since 1990. There is a low boundary wall along the street and a garage to the south.
Local climate
42 Lauder 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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