101, 103 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1992. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
101, 103 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- weathered-nave-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1992
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 101, 103 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1HA
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 720
- Coordinates
- 55.93557, -3.19385
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
101 and 103 Marchmont Road in Edinburgh is a four-storey, three-bay tenement building designed by John C Hay in 1882. It is part of a terrace that reflects the Scottish 17th century style. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Notable features include a base course, a continuous band of relieving arches above the lintels at the ground floor, a dividing band course above, and a cornice above the second floor. The building has long and short window surrounds, chamfered reveals, panelled doors, and plate glass fanlights.
The west entrance elevation features four bays at the ground level. There are two doorways flanking a bipartite window at the ground floor, with the left doorway having floreate capitalled nookshafts. A full-height canted window is corbelled to a square at the Dutch gable, which has a broken pediment cradling a thistle finial. The central light is pedimented at the ground floor, and there are dividing bands and a circular patera in the gablehead. The outer left bay has bipartite windows, while the third-floor window breaks the eaves in a pedimented dormer head with an inset patera. The remaining bay has single windows, with the third-floor window also breaking the eaves in a crow-stepped dormer head. A central pedimented datestone inscribed "AD 1883" is located above the first floor.
The building features plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, three corniced, linked polygonal wallhead stacks, a corniced mutual gable stack, moulded octagonal cans, and scrolled skewputts. The street is bordered by a low saddleback wall. The interiors were not seen in 1990.
Local climate
101, 103 Marchmont 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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