38 Blacket Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.
38 Blacket Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tired-thatch-sienna
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 38 Blacket Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1RL
- OS grid reference
- NT 266 721
- Coordinates
- 55.93644, -3.17509
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 Blacket Place is a mid-19th century, two-storey classical terrace comprising three houses, arranged in a symmetrical nine-bay rectangular plan. The building features polished sandstone ashlar with a channelled finish at the ground level, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble. It has a base course, a dividing band course, a cornice, and a blocking course. Notably, No 40 has an additional storey. The first-floor windows have lugged architraves, while the attic storey windows have plain architraves.
The northeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, has advanced bays flanking No 40. The doorcases are adorned with entablatures supported by Greek Doric columns in front of single pilasters in both the central bay and the advanced bays. There are single windows on the first floor above and on both floors of all bays, along with three smaller windows in the attic storey. Single-storey corniced wings connect to the adjoining properties on either side and contain pedestrian doorways.
The windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a piended design, with corniced wallhead stacks. The attic storey has a flat roof with two pairs of corniced wallhead stacks. Small sections of iron railings lead up to each of the doorcases.
The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is also bordered by low coped boundary walls, which are mutual and face the street.
Local climate
38 Blacket Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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