Sentry Pavilions and Gates is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Sentry pavilion. 1 related planning application.

Sentry Pavilions and Gates

WRENN ID
calm-frieze-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Sentry pavilion
Address
Sentry Pavilions and Gates, EH9 2EZ
OS grid reference
NT 251 715
Coordinates
55.93101, -3.1999
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Sentry Pavilions and Gates, designed by Auldjo Jamieson and Arnott in 1932, are a pair of single-storey square plan neo-Georgian sentry lodges featuring bull's eye windows. They are connected by ornamental ironwork railing, gateposts, and gates in a late 17th century style, crafted by Thomas Hadden. The pavilions are constructed from cream ashlar sandstone and include a deep base course and an eaves course. They are located at the north entrance to the Astley Ainslie hospital site. Notable architectural features include distinctive key-stoned window and door openings, with timber and glazed doors that are partly blocked. The lodges are topped with pantiled pyramidal roofs.

Local climate

Sentry Pavilions and Gates 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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