Belvedere, Morton House, 19 Winton Loan, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. Tower house.

Belvedere, Morton House, 19 Winton Loan, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ragged-plaster-pine
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 July 1966
Type
Tower house
OS grid reference
NT 255 676
Coordinates
55.89599, -3.19282
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Belvedere, Morton House, located at 19 Winton Loan in Edinburgh, is a building that likely dates back to the early 18th century. It is a two-storey, single-cell tower with a rectangular plan, featuring a pair of round angle towers on the west side. The design is symmetrical and incorporates classical elements on the west elevation, including an oculus, a round-arched window with a keystone, and miniature obelisks flanking the gable. The structure is built of rubble, which was formerly harled, with lightly droved sandstone ashlar dressings that include architraved openings, coped gables, and quoins.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is a central round-arched window with a keystone and impost bands on the ground floor, which may have originally been an entrance or a taller window. Above it is a single window, with flanking angle towers that have one window each on the first floor. The gable features a shouldered design with an oculus at the center and miniature stone obelisks on either side. A chimney stack at the apex is topped with a wrought-iron finial.

The east (entrance) elevation has a central entrance with a panelled timber door and paired windows on the first floor. The north elevation includes a round angle tower on the right, with a first-floor window immediately to the left. The south elevation features a round angle tower on the left and a single window to the right on each floor, with the ground floor window likely being a later addition with a surround instead of an architrave.

The roof of the main structure is covered with grey slate, while the angle towers have stone flags. The building has multi-pane fixed timber windows, primarily 28 and 12-pane, many of which are broken. The gablehead stacks on the east and west elevations are coped, with the west elevation stack featuring ashlar angle margins and flat coping topped with a wrought-iron finial, and the east elevation stack having stone quoins and moulded ashlar coping.

Inside, the former first floor and staircase are missing.

Local climate

Belvedere, Morton House, 19 Winton Loan, 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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