28 Marlborough Street, Portobello, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terraced houses. 1 related planning application.
28 Marlborough Street, Portobello, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- patient-tower-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 28 Marlborough Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 2BG
- OS grid reference
- NT 307 738
- Coordinates
- 55.95295, -3.11003
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
28 Marlborough Street in Portobello, Edinburgh, is a pair of classical terraced houses designed by Roderick Morrison in 1823. These two-storey buildings with a basement feature six bays and have been subdivided over time. The exterior is constructed of droved ashlar, which is painted at the basement level, with polished dressings. The northeast side elevation is made of rubble, while the southwest side elevation has lined rendering, and the rear is also rubble.
On the northwest (principal) elevation, there are eight steps leading up to the original plain cast-iron handrails and deep-set panelled doors at the center. Above these doors are rectangular fanlights and windows on the first floor, with plate glass windows at No 30. Each flanking bay has windows on both floors, while the outer right bay has blinded windows. The basement features windows for each bay.
The southeast (rear) elevation has not been seen since 1994. No 28 has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while No 30 has plate glass timber sash and case windows. The slate roof includes dividing skews and coped gablehead stacks.
The interior has not been seen since 1994. The boundary walls are made of sandstone with coping, and there are replacement railings at No 28.
Local climate
28 Marlborough Street, Portobello, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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