Moubray Spring Head is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970.
Moubray Spring Head
- WRENN ID
- shifting-chamber-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- OS grid reference
- NT 241 692
- Coordinates
- 55.9102, -3.21552
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hare Spring Head consists of seven square or rectangular buildings made of dressed stone, which are situated over original springs that date back to 1676. These buildings are arranged along separate named pipelines that supply water to the Comiston Springs Waterhouse. The structures above the springs were built at different times due to maintenance and repairs, with the oldest likely originating in the late 17th century. The specific spring heads include Peewit Spring Head 1, Peewit Spring Head 2, Sandglass Spring Head, Hare Spring Head, Moubray (or Hare) Spring Head, Fox Spring Head 2, and Fox Spring Head 3.
Local climate
Moubray Spring Head 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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