12 Hermitage Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 1 related planning application.

12 Hermitage Place, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-threshold-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Address
12 Hermitage Place, Edinburgh, EH6 8AF
OS grid reference
NT 273 757
Coordinates
55.96903, -3.16516
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

10 Hermitage Place in Edinburgh is a terrace of eight houses designed by Thomas Bonnar around 1825. The terrace consists of four mirrored pairs, each two storeys high with an attic and basement. The front façade features ashlar sandstone, polished and channelled at the ground floor with decorative voussoirs above the door and window openings. The first floor has droved stone, while the basement displays rock-faced rustication. Polished ashlar dressings are used throughout, including a base course, a band course between the ground and first floors, and a cill course for the first-floor windows. The eaves cornice is mutuled at No 6, and there is a blocking course above.

On the principal elevation, the entrance doors are centrally located in each pair, featuring panelled doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights, which are blocked at No 9 and decorative at No 13. The houses are regularly fenestrated, with basement windows and dormers over the outer bays, as well as an inner bay at No 6. Various rooflights are present over the inner bays.

The south elevation has not been seen since 1995. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass, featuring four panes at Nos 9 and 10, while the dormers at Nos 8, 12, and 13 have modern glazing. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have ashlar skew copes. The mutual multi-flue stacks are a mix of rendered and droved ashlar with coping. There are seven stone steps leading to the entrance, oversailing the basement and accompanied by modern railings.

The interior has not been seen since 1995. The boundary walls are made of droved ashlar, rendered at No 6, and feature a dwarf wall with coping along the street, topped with modern railings.

Local climate

12 Hermitage Place, 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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