8 Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 2 related planning applications.
8 Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- floating-chancel-burdock
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 8 Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh, EH3 7TZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 243 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95239, -3.21347
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Randolph Cliff in Edinburgh is a three-storey classical terrace with a basement and attic, built in 1822 by James Gillespie Graham. The main southwest elevation features fifteen bays, with channelled sandstone ashlar at the ground floor and a continuous cornice at the second floor. The entrances for numbers 2-8 include stone steps that extend over flagstone basement areas. The doors are made of panelled timber, some with glazed upper panels and rectangular fanlights. The windows have moulded architraves, with those on the first floor featuring individual cornices. Numbers 2-4 have three piended dormers, while the attic for numbers 5-6 is a later addition.
The slightly advanced five-bay end pavilion at numbers 7-9A includes a three-bay projection on its northwest elevation, which has a balustraded balcony and a pedimented window at the first floor. A balustraded parapet is present at the second floor, topped by a tall and broad ashlar chimney stack with a round-arched opening in the centre. The building features predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimney stacks have circular clay cans, and the cast-iron railings display spear-headed balusters with pineapple finials. Number 9 has round gatepiers. The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
8 Randolph Cliff, 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 — 2 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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