17 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 September 2002. 1 related planning application.
17 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cellar-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 September 2002
- Address
- 17 Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh, EH12 6AU
- OS grid reference
- NT 228 734
- Coordinates
- 55.94742, -3.23722
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Murrayfield Avenue in Edinburgh is a row of terraced houses built in 1899. This two-storey and attic building features two bays with canted bays and crow-stepped gables. The exterior is made of coursed polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings, including a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, and a cornice at the roofline. The canted bays have cornices beneath crenellated parapets, and the dormers on the gables have alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The first-floor windows of the bay on the right (Nos 19 to 25 only) have margins.
On the principal elevation, the door is located in the bay to the right at ground level, framed by panelled pedestals that support a moulded, keystoned round-arched opening. The spandrels have recessed panels, and flanking fluted pilasters with raised rectangular mouldings at the capitals support a cornice. The entrance features a panelled timber door flanked by narrow multi-paned lights and a semicircular fanlight, some of which have astragals. Above the door is a window at the first floor, with a dormer in the attic. The left side has a two-storey canted bay with windows on each face and a bipartite window above the parapet.
The windows have 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, with 4-pane glazing in the dormers and occasional multi-paned upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped, coursed, polished sandstone ashlar stacks with tall cylindrical cans, with the stack between Nos 23 and 25 rendered. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
The northwest side elevation is two bays wide and includes a base course and band courses between the ground floor and first floor, as well as between the first and second floors. There is a cornice and balustrade with ball finials at either end of the gablehead stack. The left bay has a two-storey canted bay with a crenellated parapet, a bipartite window above, and a centered window at attic level. An elaborate plaque inscribed '1899' is set to the right at the first floor.
The boundary walls are low, coped, and made of coursed sandstone rubble, lining the street.
Local climate
17 Murrayfield Avenue, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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