Milestone, Buckstone Terrace, Comiston Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 December 1998. Milepost.

Milestone, Buckstone Terrace, Comiston Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
cold-corridor-sedge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 December 1998
Type
Milepost
OS grid reference
NT 247 684
Coordinates
55.9031, -3.20563
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This milestone, located on Buckstone Terrace along Comiston Road in Edinburgh, likely dates from the early 19th century. It is made of sandstone and stands approximately 70 centimeters tall. The milestone features round-headed design with chamfered edges and has a droved finish at the base and on the lower part of the edges. At the top, it is inscribed with the number '3'.

Local climate

Milestone, Buckstone Terrace, Comiston Road, 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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