Inch House, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Inch House, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- ghost-slate-sorrel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Inch House, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5UF
- OS grid reference
- NT 276 708
- Coordinates
- 55.92499, -3.15897
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inch House, located on Gilmerton Road in Edinburgh, is a significant building dating from 1617. It features a stepped L-plan design, consisting of a three-storey and attic southeast block, which includes a crenellated re-entrant stair tower that rises five storeys. The exterior is harled with crow-stepped gables and stone dormers, while the ground floor is vaulted. The northeast wing is two-storey and has sculptured dormer heads added in 1634, along with some 18th and early 19th century additions. A large southwest addition was made by MacGibbon and Ross between 1891 and 1892, which involved the remodelling and rebuilding of the Georgian wing. This addition is also two-storey and attic, featuring an angle turret, stone dormers, and an elaborate porch with pilasters and a pediment, showcasing faceted rustication, along with a bay window above on the first floor.
Local climate
Inch House, Gilmerton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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