Former Gateway To Tweeddale House Stables, Cowgate, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1987. Gateway.

Former Gateway To Tweeddale House Stables, Cowgate, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
open-zinc-lake
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 August 1987
Type
Gateway
OS grid reference
NT 261 735
Coordinates
55.9493, -3.18381
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former gateway to the Tweeddale House stables, located on Cowgate in Edinburgh, was designed by William Adam in 1736-1737. It features a round-arched ashlar carriage arch with rectangular pedestrian gateways on either side. This gateway once served the stables, which have since been demolished, and is now integrated into a random rubble coped screen wall built in 1977, along with some later stonework. The rear of the wall is dry-dashed to the north.

Local climate

Former Gateway To Tweeddale House Stables, Cowgate, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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