3 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1987.

3 Northfield Gardens, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
seventh-rampart-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1987
OS grid reference
NT 290 734
Coordinates
55.94918, -3.13811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Northfield Gardens in Edinburgh is a three-storey, five-bay local authority tenement building designed by Reginald Fairlie, G Reid, and J Smith Forbes in 1921. It contains 12 flats, with the outer bays slightly advanced. The building is constructed of snecked rubble, featuring darker rubble for the window dressings. A rubble cill-band runs along the second floor between the advanced bays. The central entrance has a timber panelled door set in an ashlar-moulded doorway, which is below a blocked canopy. The windows are predominantly bipartite and arranged in a regular pattern, with rubble voussoirs above the ground floor windows.

The low quadrant links have arched openings with red tile voussoirs, a string course, blocked eaves, and red pantiled skews. The sash and case windows, which previously had 12-pane glazing, now feature plate glass. The roof is piended with broad eaves, and the projecting end bays have bell-cast eaves, covered in grey slate. The building also has tall rubble chimney stacks with cornices and a projecting shouldered chimney breast at the wallhead, which breaks the eaves.

Local climate

3 Northfield Gardens, 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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