Gatepiers, Greenbank Crescent, Braidburn Valley, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 October 2007. Gatepiers.
Gatepiers, Greenbank Crescent, Braidburn Valley, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- carved-turret-woodpecker
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2007
- Type
- Gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- NT 242 702
- Coordinates
- 55.9191, -3.21318
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gatepiers at Greenbank Crescent in Braidburn Valley, Edinburgh, date from around 1815 but were relocated to their current position in 1937. They are a pair of rusticated sandstone ashlar gatepiers topped with cornices and decorative urn finials. The gatepiers feature scroll-topped buttresses at the rear and secondary piers that create pedestrian entrances on the sides. They have base course plinths and a fine string course beneath the projecting cornice. The urns are adorned with acanthus leaf and oval detailing. The 1937 alterations include squared, snecked sandstone quadrant curved wing walls. The wrought iron gates, which are initialled GR, are also believed to date from 1937.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Greenbank Crescent, Braidburn Valley, 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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