68 John Street, Penicuik is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. House.
68 John Street, Penicuik
- WRENN ID
- riven-rood-stoat
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2000
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 234 602
- Coordinates
- 55.82903, -3.2233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
68 John Street in Penicuik is a two-storey, three-bay house built in the later 19th century. It is constructed from tooled sandstone ashlar and features a base course and a band course between the ground and first floors, along with quoin strips.
The northeast elevation, which is the principal front, has a recessed modern door in the center at ground level. There are windows in the remaining bays on the ground floor and in the bays on the first floor.
On the southeast elevation, there is a two-bay gable with a later addition of a rendered forestair to the left. This elevation includes windows in the bays on the first floor and a door to the outer left at the first floor, along with windows in the northeast and southeast faces of the addition.
The southwest elevation was not visible in 1999, and the northwest elevation is obscured by an adjoining building.
The interior was also not seen in 1999. The property features a low, coped boundary wall to the street with modern decorative metal railings. The windows are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, along with a pair of modern skylights. There are cast-iron rainwater goods and gablehead stacks that are coped with circular cans.
Local climate
68 John Street, Penicuik sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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