Fernbank, 40 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Villa.
Fernbank, 40 Main Street, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- outer-corner-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NT 139 707
- Coordinates
- 55.92219, -3.37887
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fernbank is a villa-style cottage located at 40 Main Street in Ratho, built around 1860. It is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays, constructed from coursed whinstone, featuring stugged sandstone margins and raised quoins that are now painted. The side elevation is made of sandstone rubble, and the building has a base course and an eaves band.
The main elevation has a deep-set door at the center, framed by a doorcase with slender pilasters and consoles that support a triangular dentillated pediment, which extends beyond the eaves. On either side of the door are full-height canted windows with blocking courses. The building also features canted, half-pied dormers located behind the bay windows.
On the left side elevation, there is a gabled section with a blocked window at the attic level. The windows throughout the building are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar coping at the skew, along with a square, corniced apex stack.
Surrounding the property is a low boundary wall made of whinstone, topped with ashlar slab coping.
Local climate
Fernbank, 40 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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