85 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 April 1996. Terrace, workshop.

85 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
grey-corbel-fern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 April 1996
Type
Terrace, workshop
Address
85 Kirkbrae, Edinburgh, EH16 6JA
OS grid reference
NT 275 695
Coordinates
55.91352, -3.1599
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

85 Kirkbrae is an early 19th century single-storey terrace building, situated with a cottage to the south and a workshop to the north. The structure is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings. It features timber sash and case windows, along with some modern look-alike windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes cast-iron rooflights in the workshop, while the south end has a rendered stack and there is a brick mutual stack.

The cottage has three bays, with a timber boarded door located in the center and windows on either side. The end gable facing Mount Vernon Road is blank. The workshop to the north has an enlarged opening on the left side and two later bipartite windows on the right.

Inside the workshop, which may have served as a schoolroom in the late 19th century, there is tongue and groove panelling throughout and rooflights at the rear.

Local climate

85 Kirkbrae, 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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