40, 42, 44 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

40, 42, 44 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
veiled-truss-ivory
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1993
Type
Tenement
Address
40, 42, 44 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1HX
OS grid reference
NT 254 722
Coordinates
55.93792, -3.19517
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40, 42, and 44 Marchmont Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey, five-bay tenement building designed by Thomas P. Marwick in 1888. It is part of a terrace and constructed from squared and snecked pink sandstone, featuring polished red ashlar dressings. The building has a base course, a cill course at the second floor, a cornice above the second floor, and pedimented dormer heads above bipartite windows on the third floor. The advanced bays have facetted pyramidal roofs topped with lead finials, and the doorways are roll-moulded with panelled doors and chamfered reveals.

The entrance elevation includes a central doorway with a plate glass fanlight, and bipartite windows on each floor above. To the right of the central bay, there is a doorway with a single window flanking it in the second bay, also featuring a plate glass fanlight and bipartite windows above. In the fourth bay, there is a doorway with a single window flanking it to the left, with a small-pane fanlight and single windows on each floor above. The outer left bay has full-height four-light canted windows, with dividing cill and lintel courses, a string course at the third floor, and a cornice above. The outer right bay features full-height two-light canted windows adjoining the neighbouring tenement, detailed similarly to the outer left bay. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, a corniced wallhead stack, and coped and partly rendered mutual stacks.

There is a low boundary wall along the street. The interior was not seen in 1991.

Local climate

40, 42, 44 Marchmont 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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