1 Long Green, Dalmeny House Policies, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981.
1 Long Green, Dalmeny House Policies, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- inner-wall-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1981
- OS grid reference
- NT 176 775
- Coordinates
- 55.98355, -3.32074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Long Green, located within the Dalmeny House Policies in Edinburgh, is an asymmetrical row of four single-storey and two-storey cottages dating from the 18th to mid-19th century. The cottages have entrance elevations facing southwest and are harled with margins, some of which are stop-chamfered. Each entrance door features gablet canopies supported by wooden brackets, and the buildings have cast-iron rainwater goods and skews.
Number 1 Long Green, from the mid-19th century, is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a centrally placed two-leaf timber door flanked by single windows. To the right, there is a single-storey wing made of rubble, accompanied by a semicircular coped wall.
Number 2 Long Green, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a centrally located door at the ground level, flanked by single windows, with additional single windows aligned above. It also features a single-storey flat-roofed wing to the left.
Number 3 Long Green is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a centrally placed two-leaf timber door flanked by single windows.
Number 4 Long Green is similar in style, being a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a door at the centre flanked by single windows. To the right, there is a sympathetic addition featuring a single window, along with a tall rubble and semicircular wall.
The rear elevations include a series of single-storey and attic wings, as well as single-storey gabled and piend-roofed extensions. There is also a later brick addition to the east.
The cottages feature timber sash and case windows, some of which have been enlarged. The roofs are graded grey slate, with Number 1 having a jerkin-headed roof and a purple slate wing, along with large flush rooflights. The buildings have harled and shouldered ridge stacks, harled gablehead stacks, and octagonal ridge and gablehead stacks, all coped with circular cans.
Local climate
1 Long Green, Dalmeny House Policies, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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