50 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. House.

50 Main Street, Ratho

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 March 1994
Type
House
Address
50 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
OS grid reference
NT 138 707
Coordinates
55.92204, -3.37958
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 Main Street in Ratho is a mid-19th century house, built after 1852. It is a two-storey, three-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan structure. The exterior features stugged, squared whinstone with droved sandstone margins, which are painted at the ground level, and droved quoins on the left side.

The main elevation has a centrally located modern door with a narrow letter-box fanlight, flanked by windows. The first-floor windows are symmetrically arranged. On the outer right at the first floor, there are cast-iron remains of a former shop sign. The gables are rendered.

The windows are plate glass sash and case uPVC. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar coping on the skews, along with broad corniced apex stacks.

Surrounding the property is a low rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping that curves upwards to meet the end wall of the house, while the wall on the left side is higher.

Local climate

50 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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