42 Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Cottage.
42 Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- eastward-basalt-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 42 Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4TB
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 770
- Coordinates
- 55.98065, -3.19462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
42 Main Street is a mid to later 18th century cottage that has been recast and converted by Ian Lindsay & Partners around 1970. It is a two-storey, two-bay building that forms the end of a terrace, with its gable facing Pier Place. The exterior is harled and limewashed, featuring raised and painted concrete surrounds around the openings, and an exterior stair with timber railings leading to the first floor.
On the east elevation facing Great Michael Square, the stairs lead to a central entrance on the first floor, which has a two-leaf timber boarded door and flanking single windows. There is a single window on the ground floor in the stair recess to the left, along with a boarded storage door beneath the stair.
The west elevation facing Fishmarket Square has a recessed first floor and is regularly fenestrated on both floors. The north elevation facing Pier Place features a single window on the first floor in the outer left bay.
All elevations have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is machine-made with red pantiles, a grey slate easing course, and precast concrete skews. There is a harled apex stack on the north side with a precast concrete cope and circular cans.
Local climate
42 Main Street, Newhaven, 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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