Tower House, 142 Liberton Drive, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974.
Tower House, 142 Liberton Drive, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- stark-window-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- OS grid reference
- NT 265 696
- Coordinates
- 55.91439, -3.17718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The outbuildings and stables at Tower House, located at 142 Liberton Drive in Edinburgh, date from the later 18th century. This two-storey, three-bay farmhouse is designed in an L-shape and is situated to the south of Liberton Tower. It is constructed of random rubble with droved ashlar dressings, featuring purple slate roofing, ashlar coped skews, and rubble stacks with simple ashlar cornices.
On the southeast elevation, there is a central door that leads to a large modern timber and glazed porch. Flanking the door are windows on the ground floor, and there are three additional windows on the first floor, all with lying-pane glazing in renewed sashes. A large modern Velux window is present in the attic.
The northeast (rear) elevation includes a two-storey wing with a harled gable. At the rear, there are rubble outbuildings and stables. To the south, there are gatepiers topped with ball finials, which are adjacent to rubble, and a rubble coped garden wall that extends to the south.
Local climate
Tower House, 142 Liberton Drive, 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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