Smiddy And Sseb Substation, 204 Lanark Road West, Currie is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Substation.

Smiddy And Sseb Substation, 204 Lanark Road West, Currie

WRENN ID
watchful-cobalt-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Substation
OS grid reference
NT 181 677
Coordinates
55.89629, -3.31015
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Smiddy and SSEB Substation, located at 204 Lanark Road West in Currie, is an early to mid 19th century building. It is a single-storey structure made of whitewashed rubble, featuring a two-light window and a door on the right side. The building has a modern tiled roof and a straight-skewed gable with a brick chimney. At the west end, there is a harled addition that serves as the SSEB substation, which also has a straight-skewed gable and a slated roof. At the rear, there is a semi-circular outshot with a piend-roofed addition covered in pantiles. The building is flanked by canted dormers.

Local climate

Smiddy And Sseb Substation, 204 Lanark Road West, Currie 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 78% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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