Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Greenhouse.

Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
plain-footing-ebony
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Greenhouse
Address
Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
OS grid reference
NT 246 755
Coordinates
55.967, -3.2084
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Palm Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh were designed by Robert Matheson and built between 1856 and 1858. The structure features an arched parallelogram shape supported by Roman Doric pilasters. It has a two-stage convex glass roof and an octagonal section at the rear.

Local climate

Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden, 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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