85, 87, 89 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement.
85, 87, 89 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- woven-basalt-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1993
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 85, 87, 89 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1EW
- OS grid reference
- NT 252 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93844, -3.19835
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
85, 87, and 89 Warrender Park Road is a four-storey corner tenement block designed by George Wilson in 1886, featuring Jacobean details and a corner tower. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a string course above the ground floor, and cill courses at the first and third floors. The third floor has single windows that break the eaves in semi-circular dormerheads, with raised window surrounds and chamfered reveals.
On Warrender Park Road, the building has five bays with a polygonal corner tower on the outer right. There is a doorway with a Gibbsian surround and pediment located between the first and second bays, and a similar doorway offset to the right in the fourth bay. Above these doorways are single windows, with a broken pediment over the first-floor window. To the left of the corbel in the third bay, there is a doorway flanking advanced bipartite windows, and a single window flanking to the right at ground level. A pedimented slit window is set in a curvilinear gablehead. The first bay features a full-height canted window, with a scrolled pediment over the ground floor window and a pediment over the first-floor window. The building also has a balustraded parapet and an oculus set in the curvilinear gable behind. There are single windows in the second and fifth bays, and a single window at ground level between the third and fourth bays. The polygonal corner tower, which breaks the eaves, has three windows at ground level and three more with shallow curvilinear cill details at the first and fourth floors, topped with an ogee roof and a weathervane finial.
On Spottiswoode Street, the building has three bays with a polygonal corner tower on the outer left. Each bay features single windows, with pediments over the first-floor windows and the central window at the second floor. The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a corniced wallhead stack and coped and rendered mutual stacks. The interiors were not seen in 1991. There is a low boundary wall to the street.
Local climate
85, 87, 89 Warrender Park 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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