Tunnel, Rodney Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Tunnel.
Tunnel, Rodney Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- rusted-parapet-hawk
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Tunnel
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 749
- Coordinates
- 55.96137, -3.19582
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tunnel on Rodney Street in Edinburgh was designed by Grainger and Millar, engineers for the Leith and Granton Railway, between 1844 and 1847. It features two entrances: one at Scotland Street Goods and Mineral Station and the other at Heriot Hill House on Broughton Road. The tunnel has slightly depressed horseshoe arches, which are flanked by long rusticated voussoirs and tapered droved ashlar buttresses. The approach walls are curved, and there is a band course located below the coped ashlar parapet.
Local climate
Tunnel, Rodney Street, 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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