Edgehead is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 2003. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Edgehead
- WRENN ID
- sharp-string-bramble
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 2003
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Edgehead, EH37 5RL
- OS grid reference
- NT 372 652
- Coordinates
- 55.8767, -3.00508
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Edgehead is an earlier 19th century farmhouse, designed as a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building with a single-storey piended porch. The exterior is harled and painted, featuring sandstone ashlar margins, skews, and slightly projecting sills.
On the southwest elevation, the central porch is enclosed and gabled, with stone margins and skews, topped with a broken stone finial at the apex. It has a panelled timber door with two glazed top lights and blind returns. The ground floor has flanking windows, with the left bay elongated nearly to floor level. The first floor features three regularly placed bays with plain stone skews.
The northwest elevation has a blind gabled end with a harled gablehead stack, and it adjoins a much later barn structure on the far right.
The northeast elevation has not been seen since 2002.
The southeast elevation also has a blind gabled end with a harled wallhead stack and an unusual guttering system. There is a later rubble wall with semi-circular copes abutting the ground floor on the left side. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with a 6-pane elongated window on the ground floor left. The roof is gabled, covered with grey slate and zinc ridging, and features cast-iron rainwater goods with unusual horizontal guttering and central down-pipes on the side elevations.
Inside, the original features remain, but the building was derelict as of 2001.
Local climate
Edgehead receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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