Duddingston Forge, Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 February 1985. Forge.

Duddingston Forge, Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fallow-loft-crow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 February 1985
Type
Forge
Address
Duddingston Forge, Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh, EH15 1SU
OS grid reference
NT 291 731
Coordinates
55.94593, -3.1355
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Duddingston Forge, located on Willowbrae Road in Edinburgh, is a single storey and attic, five-bay, U-plan forge and smithy built in 1914 by T G Leadbetter, J M Fairley, and R S Reid. The building is harled and features crowstepped gables. It has an arched two-leaf glazed door situated under the forward-facing gable bay, with flanking gable-headed windows that break the eaves. The wings are adorned with swept dormers, and there is a pyramidal-roofed louvred ventilator at the ridge. The ground floor has diamond-pane glazing in the casement windows, while the dormer windows feature 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates.

Local climate

Duddingston Forge, Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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