Nurses' Home, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, 41-43 Frogston Road West, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1996. Hospital, nurses' home. 1 related planning application.

Nurses' Home, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, 41-43 Frogston Road West, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sunken-ashlar-scarlet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1996
Type
Hospital, nurses' home
Address
Nurses' Home, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, 41-43 Frogston Road West, Edinburgh, EH10 7AH
OS grid reference
NT 252 681
Coordinates
55.90089, -3.19711
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Nurses' Home at Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh was designed by Sir Reginald Fairlie around 1935. This is a two and three-storey, 14-bay residential building situated on a terraced site facing south, featuring a classical design. The exterior is harled with a painted base course, sills, and a second-floor sill course, and it has a cream sandstone ashlar door surround.

On the south elevation, there are six three-storey bays in the center, which include a round-arched doorway at the ground level, framed by an architrave with a keystone and impost blocks. The doorway has a panelled door and a decorative radial fanlight above it. Flanking the doorway are windows in two bays that do not align with the regular fenestration of the bays above and in the outer bays of the block. The windows decrease in size with each floor. There are two-storey bays on either side, with broad, advanced single bay outer pavilions and three-bay links, all regularly fenestrated with smaller windows on the first floor.

The north elevation features a single-storey projection at the center left, with stair windows in the flanking bays to the left and a fire escape to the outer right of the center block. The remaining bays have regular fenestration, with three windows on each floor of the outer pavilions.

On the east elevation, there is a fire escape to the right of the center, with small windows flanking the stair. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey pantiles, which have been replaced with brown concrete pantiles on the rear of the center block and the front of the east bays. Stacks are located in the re-entrant angles formed with the pavilions.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Local climate

Nurses' Home, Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, 41-43 Frogston Road West, 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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