Seals Craig Hotel, 23 Edinburgh Road, South Queensferry is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Seals Craig Hotel, 23 Edinburgh Road, South Queensferry

WRENN ID
leaning-quoin-rain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Hotel
Address
Seals Craig Hotel, 23 Edinburgh Road, South Queensferry, EH30 9HR
OS grid reference
NT 132 783
Coordinates
55.9899, -3.3922
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Seals Craig Hotel, located at 23 Edinburgh Road in South Queensferry, is a baronial hotel built in the later 18th century and substantially remodeled in 1870. A restaurant extension was added in 1956 by the architectural firm Peddie & McKay. The hotel is situated on a narrow site and is three stories tall, constructed of square and snecked rubble with a painted ground floor and some ashlar dressings, also painted.

On the west elevation, the entrance features a door with a short staircase and an adjoining window, with a single window located on the first and second floors above. There is a slim light in the left bay at ground level. The southwest corner is splayed and has a crowstepped gable, an entrance door, and bipartite windows with cusped heads on the first and second floors above, along with a single trefoil window in the attic.

The north elevation has a large window in the center on the first floor, a single window in the left bay on the second floor, and a small window in the attic above. There is a modern extension present.

The east elevation features a modern extension at ground level, a large canted bay on the first floor that rises into a smaller bay on the second floor, with an attic window above. There are bipartite windows in the right bay on both the first and second floors, along with an attic window above. A square turret is corbelled out at the southeast angle on the second floor.

On the south elevation, there is a single window in the left bay on both the first and second floors, and a central window in the attic. There is also a single-storey flat-roofed extension with port-holes adjoining to the outer right.

The hotel features a variety of glazing patterns, a slate roof with crowstepped skews, and rubble stacks at the gable ends, with the south stack reduced in height. The interior was not seen in 2000.

Local climate

Seals Craig Hotel, 23 Edinburgh Road, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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