Parkside Well-Head, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Well-house.

Parkside Well-Head, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-lantern-moss
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 February 1985
Type
Well-house
Address
Parkside Well-Head, Edinburgh, EH8 9RL
OS grid reference
NT 264 727
Coordinates
55.94205, -3.17856
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Parkside Well-Head in Edinburgh is a well-house made of square ashlar stone. It features an oval panel inscribed with "Waterloo 1815." The structure supports the stump of an obelisk, although the finial is missing.

Local climate

Parkside Well-Head, 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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