117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1993. Tenement block. 2 related planning applications.
117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tilted-gateway-claret
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1993
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, Edinburgh, EH9 1EN
- OS grid reference
- NT 251 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93807, -3.20009
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
117-119 Warrender Park Road is a four-storey corner tenement block built in 1881 by Alexander Macnaughton, featuring Baronial architectural details. The building is constructed from coursed orange sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable exterior features include a base course, cill band courses, raised window surrounds, chamfered reveals, and doorways that are either roll-moulded corniced or pedimented, complemented by panelled doors and plate glass fanlights.
The elevation facing Warrender Park Road has four bays, with a fifth bay at the corner on the outer left. The doorway is located in the second bay, flanked by a single window to the right. Above, there are bipartite windows set in an advanced corbelled panel above the first floor, with a hoodmoulding above the third-floor window and a pedimented single window set in a crowstepped gablehead linked to a wallhead stack. There is another doorway in the third bay and single windows above, while the first bay features single windows. The fourth bay has a full-height canted window, and the ground floor windows have pediments. The corner bay is canted with windows on each floor.
The elevation on Marchmont Street has three bays, with an angle bay on the outer right. The doorway is in the third bay, with single windows above. The second bay features bipartite windows and an advanced corbelled panel above the first floor, a hoodmoulding above the third-floor window, and a pedimented single window set in a crowstepped gablehead. The first bay has a single window. The building has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and pyramidal roofs with iron finials on the canted bays. There is a corniced wallhead stack to the south and a rendered wallhead stack to the west, along with coped mutual stacks and some original rainwater goods, including hoppers.
A low boundary wall runs along the street.
Local climate
117-119 Warrender Park Road, Marchmont, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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