Emily Bank, Engine Road, Gorebridge is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Semi-detached houses. 2 related planning applications.
Emily Bank, Engine Road, Gorebridge
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rotunda-plover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1999
- Type
- Semi-detached houses
- Address
- Emily Bank, Engine Road, Gorebridge, EH23 4AE
- OS grid reference
- NT 337 620
- Coordinates
- 55.84748, -3.05975
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Emily Bank is a pair of semi-detached houses built in the later 19th century. They are single storey with an attic and have a rectangular plan, featuring four bays. The houses are constructed from coursed red brick with yellow brick dressings. Notable architectural features include projecting cills, segmental-arched window and door openings, a corbelled eaves course, and gabled dormers that have timber bargeboards and finials.
The west elevation is symmetrical with panelled bays. The two central bays contain timber doors accessed by steps, which have letterbox fanlights above them. There are windows in the flanking bays on either side, and three dormer windows in the attic storey.
The south elevation was not visible in 1998.
The east elevation is also symmetrical and features an M-gable. It has windows in the two central bays and doors with two-pane fanlights in the outer left and right bays.
The north elevation is asymmetrical with three bays, and the centre and right bays are gabled. The ground floor has regular fenestration, while there is a window off-centre to the left of the gablehead.
The houses predominantly feature six-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge. The brick gablehead stacks have corbelled coping and circular cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
In addition, there are gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls associated with the property. The gatepiers are red and white with stone pyramidal caps located to the west of the house. There are boarded timber gates to the west and east, and brick walls with semicircular coping.
Local climate
Emily Bank, Engine Road, Gorebridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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