Offices, 6 Bell's Brae, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Former stables, offices. 3 related planning applications.

Offices, 6 Bell's Brae, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
final-moat-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
Type
Former stables, offices
Address
Offices, 6 Bell's Brae, Edinburgh, EH4 3BJ
OS grid reference
NT 242 739
Coordinates
55.9526, -3.2153
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 6 Bell's Brae in Edinburgh, was designed by Thomas Moncur in 1881 and converted into offices in 1972 by Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall and Partners (RMJM). It is a former stable structure that features approximately 13 bays and is two storeys high, with three storeys at the rear, situated on ground that slopes down to the northwest.

The eastern section of the building is advanced and showcases a large gambrel gable with paired rectangular dormers on the street-facing elevation. The northern elevation has a curved shape, and the building is oriented from east to west. The exterior is constructed of coursed and snecked rubble, with long and short quoins, and crowstepped gables on the western side. The large overhanging gambrel roof on the eastern side is complemented by a crowstepped gable beyond it.

The southern elevation features shouldered arched openings at the ground floor, with tall narrow rectangular windows above. The northern elevation has large rectangular windows at the ground floor with ashlar lintels, and smaller windows on the upper level. A tall pointed arched window is present on the western gable end.

The building predominantly has plate glass in later timber hopper opening windows, along with 9-pane and 4-pane hopper opening windows in the dormers. The pitched roof is covered with grey slates and clay ridge tiles, and some ashlar skews are visible. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also part of the building's features.

Local climate

Offices, 6 Bell's Brae, 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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