St George's Well, Water Of Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Well.
St George's Well, Water Of Leith, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- western-iron-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Well
- OS grid reference
- NT 244 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95368, -3.21228
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St George's Well, located by the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, is a single storey and basement building that dates back to 1810. It is constructed from droved ashlar sandstone, with rustication at the basement level. There is a base course between the basement and the principal floor, as well as an eaves course.
The principal southeast elevation features a gabled front with a metal door centered on the principal floor. Above the door is a recessed, tooled gable roundel that reads '1810', along with a decorative finial and acroteria. The side elevations are blank, and the rear elevation is also blank and bowed.
The building is topped with a grey slate roof, which has coped skews and consoled skew putts. There is a shouldered wallhead stack that is coped and has a circular can.
Local climate
St George's Well, Water Of Leith, 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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