51-53 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994.
51-53 Main Street, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- tangled-roof-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Address
- 51-53 Main Street, Ratho, EH28 8RB
- OS grid reference
- NT 138 707
- Coordinates
- 55.92184, -3.37942
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47-49 Main Street in Ratho is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay house that was originally a pair of houses. It features a rectangular plan and is constructed from coursed, squared whinstone with droved sandstone margins and quoins.
The main elevation has an entrance bay at the center. The original pair of doors has been altered, with the left door now blocked and converted into a window, while a further window on the right is also blocked. There are flanking windows in the outer bays. The first-floor windows are regularly arranged, with a blind window at the center.
The windows are plate glass sash and case types. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar coping at the skews, along with coped and rendered apex stacks.
The property is enclosed by a low rubble boundary wall topped with gablet ashlar coping. The upper part of the wall on the right side of the gate features stone inscribed with the alphabet. There is a small wynd to the left that provides access to the rear of the building.
Local climate
51-53 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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