3 Primrose Gardens, Carrington is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999.
3 Primrose Gardens, Carrington
- WRENN ID
- hollow-vestry-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1999
- OS grid reference
- NT 319 606
- Coordinates
- 55.83393, -3.0884
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Primrose Gardens in Carrington is a single-storey, 10-bay U-plan group of four double villas, likely designed by Thomas Bertram in 1938. The exterior features cream harling and a rosemary-tiled roof, with a bull-faced base course, projecting concrete cills, and a moulded eaves course.
The south elevation is symmetrical with regular fenestration across the four central bays. It has architraved doorways with two-leaf panelled and glazed timber doors flanking the central bays, while a panelled timber door serves No. 4. The outer left and right ends have two-bay gabled projections, each with regular fenestration and a small vertical advanced harled panel in the gableheads.
On the east elevation, there is a single gabled window off-centre to the right that breaks the eaves, featuring a diamond panel advanced in the gablehead and moulded cement skews. The north elevation was not visible in 1998. The west elevation has a single gabled window off-centre to the left, also breaking the eaves, with a diamond panel advanced in the gablehead and moulded cement skews.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, with 12-pane uPVC sash and case windows for Nos. 3 and 4. The roof is swept with red tiles and has a terracotta ridge, along with harled, coped ridge stacks topped with circular cans. The property features cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
3 Primrose Gardens, Carrington 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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