Ancillary building no9, Redford cavalry barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 2017. Ancillary buildings.

Ancillary building no9, Redford cavalry barracks, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 2017
Type
Ancillary buildings
OS grid reference
NT 226 694
Coordinates
55.91225, -3.23903
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These eleven ancillary buildings were designed by Harry B Measures and built between 1909 and 1915 as part of the Redford cavalry barracks, located on Colinton Road, Edinburgh. They currently serve primarily as stores. The buildings are constructed with either coursed rubble or a rendered finish, often with smooth ashlar margins, although Building 39 features brick elevations. Most have grey graded slates to the roofs, along with raised skews, and a distinctive Dutch gable design.

Building 9 is a rectangular, gabled former stable with a long roof vent and altered window openings. Building 10 is a small, rectangular stable intended for sick horses, featuring a pair of large, boarded timber doors and roof vents. Building 13 is a six-bay former cottage characterised by irregular windows and predominantly six-pane glazing within timber sash and case windows. Four ridge chimney stacks are present.

Buildings 26 and 28 form an L-plan layout, with Building 28 distinguished by a row of high windows and Diocletian windows in its gables. Building 26 has a run of boarded timber doors on its northeast elevation. Building 29 is rectangular and gabled, with a row of high windows, ridge vents, and Diocletian windows on each gable. Building 39 has an irregular plan, incorporating one gabled section and one piended roof section. Some openings have been altered, resulting in a variety of window styles and glazing patterns, including smaller panes.

Building 40 is gabled, with lower sections on the northeast side of the entrance elevation, and displays Diocletian windows within its gables. The entrance door has been altered. Buildings 43 and 44 incorporate enclosed courtyards. Building 43 has a U-plan design and includes an enclosing boundary wall to the northeast, which features a piended roof weighing booth. Building 44 is L-plan with enclosing coped rubble boundary walls to the northeast and northwest, and a variety of window types, including timber sash and case and fixed windows, with a small pane glazing pattern. Inspection of part of the interior of Building 44 in 2016 revealed it to be divided into rooms, with one large brick fire surround featuring a stepped mantelpiece.

Buildings numbered 14, 14a, 27, 67, 71 and 72 are excluded from the listing.

Local climate

Ancillary building no9, Redford cavalry barracks, Colinton Road, 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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