Corstorphine Public Library, 12 Kirk Loan, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1997. Public library. 1 related planning application.
Corstorphine Public Library, 12 Kirk Loan, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- iron-keystone-khaki
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1997
- Type
- Public library
- Address
- Corstorphine Public Library, 12 Kirk Loan, Edinburgh, EH12 7HD
- OS grid reference
- NT 200 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94072, -3.28094
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Corstorphine Public Library, located at 12 Kirk Loan in Edinburgh, was designed by E J MacRae in 1927. This single-storey building features a basement and has a T-shaped plan. It is constructed from squared and snecked lightly bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, and includes a base course and blocking course.
The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has steps leading up to an advanced gabled entrance porch. This porch features a roll-moulded doorpiece and a two-leaf boarded timber door, topped by an illuminated fanlight. Above the door is an engraving that reads 'Corstorphine Public Library', with the Edinburgh City Arms positioned above it. Flanking the recessed bays are pairs of 3-light windows.
The library predominantly has fixed 6-pane timber windows and is topped with a grey slate roof, stone skews, and a central cupola. It also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the library has modern fittings, but retains an original timber clock in the northeast corner.
Surrounding the library are low coped boundary walls, with gates at the central entrance and to the outer left. The property is enclosed by black railings and features coped ashlar gatepiers topped with Art Nouveau style lamp standards.
Local climate
Corstorphine Public Library, 12 Kirk Loan, 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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